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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Acclimation.
(d) Assertion.

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

3. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Marcel Proust.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
(a) Futility.
(b) Fatality.
(c) Fury.
(d) Frustration.

5. 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 zookeeper.
(d) A writer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?

3. Which characters in The Antiquary does Forster say Scott introduced artlessly?

4. Which character from the novel Evan Harrington is a good example of a memorable flat character?

5. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.

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