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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?
(a) T. S. Elliot.
(b) C.S. Lewis.
(c) William George Clark.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

3. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
(a) Prison.
(b) Politics.
(c) College.
(d) War.

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

5. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?
(a) Character.
(b) Value.
(c) Plot.
(d) Time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?

2. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?

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

4. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?

5. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?

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