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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting of Ulysses?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Athens.

2. What is the name of the main character in Ulysses?
(a) Leopold Bloom.
(b) George Ulysses.
(c) Humphrey Ward.
(d) William Seymour.

3. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.
(a) Value.
(b) Love.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Labor.

4. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) Sadly.
(b) Jubiently.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Disgustedly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.

2. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?

3. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?

4. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?

5. All writers, regardless of time period or subject matter, write because of what?

(see the answer key)

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