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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Forster starts his discussion of round characters with the novel ____________.
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Emma.
(c) Wuthering Heights.
(d) Mansfield Park.

3. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.
(a) Scholar.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Pseudo-scholar.
(d) Expert.

4. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Perspicacity.
(b) Peace.
(c) Predictability.
(d) Perspective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster considers what to be the enemy when studying literature?

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

3. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of _________ the reader.

4. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.

5. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?

(see the answer key)

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