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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says by putting all of the novelists' writing in one room he has put their work through the crucible of what?
(a) Time.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) Value.
(d) Desire.

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

3. Forster says it is wrong to see the __________ in Moby Dick as a symbol.
(a) Coffin.
(b) Whale.
(c) Bird.
(d) Sea.

4. Forster says it is ____________ to speculate about the future of the novel.
(a) Crucial.
(b) Satisfying.
(c) Fruitless.
(d) Tempting.

5. Works that deal with real people are called what?
(a) Memoirs.
(b) Mosaics.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of The Ambassadors?

2. Forster refers to prophecy as being a(n) _______ in the novelist's voice.

3. In the People section, Forster says that novelists are appealing to more than our _________ when it comes to the characters of a novel.

4. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.

5. What does Forster call the small gods that he says haunt us today?

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