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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.
(a) Word masses.
(b) Creatures.
(c) Children.
(d) Babies.

2. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1905.

3. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 60,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 30,000.

4. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?
(a) Gazpacho.
(b) Galapogas.
(c) Gauchos.
(d) Groucho.

5. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.
(a) Parallel.
(b) Paint.
(c) Process.
(d) Propel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?

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

3. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?

4. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.

5. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?

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