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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster considers what to be the enemy when studying literature?
(a) Mood.
(b) Place.
(c) Value.
(d) Time.

2. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
(a) Samuel Richardson.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Laurence Sterne.

3. Which author does the critic Percy Lubbock feel does not do a good job with point of view?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Melville.
(d) Tolstoy.

4. Flecker's Magic by Norman Matson is about a _________.
(a) Witch.
(b) Fairy.
(c) Goddess.
(d) Sorcerer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?

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

3. Which author does Forster say his own priggishness prevents him from enjoying?

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

5. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?

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