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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Animals.
(b) Particles.
(c) Antics.
(d) Parcels.

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

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?
(a) Fantasist.
(b) Futurist.
(c) Failure.
(d) Fanatic.

5. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?
(a) Amusement.
(b) Malice.
(c) Mutiny.
(d) Love.

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

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

8. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Past.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Notes.

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

10. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.
(a) Labor.
(b) Value.
(c) Love.
(d) Boredom.

11. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Secondary.
(b) Existential.
(c) Everything.
(d) Arbitrary.

12. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?
(a) Barkeeper.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Highwayman.
(d) Doctor.

13. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
(a) Politics.
(b) Prison.
(c) College.
(d) War.

14. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Acclimation.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Assertion.

15. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Edie.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Laurence.
(d) Jonathon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

3. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?

4. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?

5. In what year does E.M. Forster present his lecture series, Aspects of the Novel?

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