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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster calls Zuleika Dobson the most ___________ achievement of fantasy in his time.
(a) Notorious.
(b) Awesome.
(c) Crowning.
(d) Consistent.

2. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Food.
(b) Birth.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

3. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?
(a) Annoying bits.
(b) Pointless blobs.
(c) Clever ploys.
(d) Ragged ends.

4. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.
(a) Sustenance.
(b) Substance.
(c) Subtley.
(d) Social.

5. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Edie.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Laurence.
(d) Jonathon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"

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

3. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?

4. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?

5. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?

(see the answer key)

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