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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Fundamental.
(c) Extraneous.
(d) Controversial.

2. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?
(a) Mutiny.
(b) Amusement.
(c) Malice.
(d) Love.

3. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?
(a) Surest.
(b) Silliest.
(c) Strongest.
(d) Strangest.

4. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Secret life.
(b) Literature.
(c) Author's imagination.
(d) After life.

5. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Barkeeper.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Highwayman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

3. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?

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

5. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.

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