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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
(a) Editing.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Drama.
(d) Theme.

2. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Princeton University.

3. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?
(a) Fantasist.
(b) Futurist.
(c) Fanatic.
(d) Failure.

4. In what year does E.M. Forster present his lecture series, Aspects of the Novel?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1932.

5. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.
(a) Poignant.
(b) Valuable.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Valueless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.

2. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"

3. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

4. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?

5. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?

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