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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In a work in which the author classifies novels by weather, how many different headings are there?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

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

4. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.
(a) Invisible.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Visible.
(d) Mysterious.

5. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Cambridge University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

4. Flecker's Magic by Norman Matson is about a _________.

5. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

(see the answer key)

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