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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.
(a) Memory.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Loss.
(d) Love.

2. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) Jubiently.
(b) Disgustedly.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Angrily.

3. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.
(a) Think small.
(b) Exercise mutual restraint.
(c) Be consistent.
(d) Eat, drink, and be merry.

4. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) H.G. Wells.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Repository.
(b) Requirement.
(c) Backbone.
(d) Border.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.

2. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?

3. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

5. Who does Forster use as an example when he discusses the difference between real people and fictional people?

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