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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster quotes George Meredith as saying we must live by the ___________ or the block.
(a) Pen.
(b) Promise.
(c) Sword.
(d) Future.

2. Whose method with character does Forster believe has been misunderstood?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Melville.
(c) Austen.
(d) Lawrence.

3. What is the setting of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Buckingham.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Trinity.

4. What does Forster say it is impossible to study about literature?
(a) Plot.
(b) Reason.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Value.

5. What is the name of the popular text William George Clark wrote?
(a) Shakespearean Globe.
(b) Shakespeare Around the Globe.
(c) Globe Theater and Shakespeare.
(d) Globe Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?

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

3. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.

4. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"

5. To explore fantasy, who does Forster call upon?

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