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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Parcels.
(b) Particles.
(c) Antics.
(d) Animals.

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

5. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 200.
(b) 75.
(c) 150.
(d) 160.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

3. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?

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

5. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?

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