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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
(a) Miss Grizzle.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Edie Ochiltree.
(d) Jonathon Oldbuck.

2. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Secondary.
(b) Everything.
(c) Existential.
(d) Arbitrary.

3. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?
(a) Clever ploys.
(b) Annoying bits.
(c) Ragged ends.
(d) Pointless blobs.

4. Forster says that Meredith was the greatest _____ that English fiction ever produced.
(a) Contriver.
(b) Failure.
(c) Writer.
(d) Plotter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Forster, what is the final test of a novel?

2. What is the setting for Flecker's Magic?

3. Who is the author of Zuleika Dobson?

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

5. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

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