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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The novel Thais is in the pattern of what?
(a) Chain.
(b) Circle.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Hourglass.

3. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Fury.
(c) Futility.
(d) Fatality.

4. Who is the one living prophetic novelist that Forster names at the time of his lecture series?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Henry James.
(d) George Eliot.

5. In what year does E.M. Forster present his lecture series, Aspects of the Novel?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

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

3. What is the setting of Thais?

4. Forster distinguishes novels with fantasy and novels with prophecy by their what?

5. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?

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