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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?
(a) Hearts.
(b) Brains.
(c) Glands.
(d) Toes.

2. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
(a) Theme.
(b) Drama.
(c) Editing.
(d) Suspense.

3. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?
(a) The Antiquary.
(b) The Old Wives' Tale.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) The Swiss Family Robinson.

4. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.
(a) Memory.
(b) Love.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Loss.

5. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) H.G. Wells.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Jane Austen.

6. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.
(a) Paint.
(b) Parallel.
(c) Process.
(d) Propel.

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

8. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.
(a) Eat, drink, and be merry.
(b) Be consistent.
(c) Think small.
(d) Exercise mutual restraint.

9. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?
(a) Silliest.
(b) Surest.
(c) Strangest.
(d) Strongest.

10. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
(a) Edie Ochiltree.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Jonathon Oldbuck.
(d) Miss Grizzle.

11. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.
(a) Imperfect.
(b) Visible.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Invisible.

12. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Birth.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) Food.

13. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Flaties.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Paper thin.
(d) Humans.

14. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
(a) Laurence Sterne.
(b) Samuel Richardson.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) Henry James.

15. Forster says he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Translating.
(c) Transcribing.
(d) Paraphrasing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.

2. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

3. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?

4. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?

5. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?

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