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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.
(a) Progressive.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Primative.
(d) Modern.

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

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

4. Forster says if rhythm is done badly it hardens into a what?
(a) Joke.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Song.
(d) Parody.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster wonders how ____ will combine with the "furniture of common sense" when it comes to prophecy.

2. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.

3. Plot represents the _______ in literary work.

4. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

5. Who is the author of The Brothers Karamazov?

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