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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author does Forster refer to as a preacher, not a prophet?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) George Eliot.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Fyodor Dostoevsky.

2. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?
(a) Passion.
(b) Story.
(c) Theme.
(d) Marketability.

3. All writers, regardless of time period or subject matter, write because of what?
(a) Greed.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Desire.
(d) Frustration.

4. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Birth.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Death.

5. What does prophecy require from the reader in addition to a suspension of a sense of humor?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.

2. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

3. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

4. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?

5. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?

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