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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Controversial.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Coincindental.
(d) Congenial.

2. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?
(a) Austen.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Proust.
(d) Dickens.

3. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Marcel Proust.

4. What does Forster say is one of the lowest of human faculties?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Shame.
(c) Envy.
(d) Greed.

5. Who is the author of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) George Meredith.
(b) Percy Lubbock.
(c) Max Beerbohm.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Meredith novel does Forster use to demonstrate a character with a concealed emotion?

2. Works that deal with real people are called what?

3. Who is the author of Ulysses?

4. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?

5. Who does Forster use as an example when he discusses the difference between real people and fictional people?

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