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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 zookeeper.
(c) A bus driver.
(d) A writer.

2. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) Bleak House.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Emma.

3. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) Russian.
(d) English.

4. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Flaties.
(c) Humans.
(d) Paper thin.

5. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?

2. William George Clark is best known for being what?

3. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.

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

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

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