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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) A golfer.
(b) A zookeeper.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A writer.

3. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Food.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Birth.

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

5. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.
(a) Love.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Labor.
(d) Value.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.

2. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?

3. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.

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

5. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.

(see the answer key)

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