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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?
(a) Lawrence Sterne.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Charles Dickens.

4. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 60,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. Who does Forster say has novels with plots that "triumph too completely?"
(a) Andre Gide.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Forster quote at the end of his discussion on prophecy?

2. A Meredithian plot resembles a series of what?

3. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?

4. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?

5. Forster says he will borrow from what in describing pattern?

(see the answer key)

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