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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?
(a) Austen.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Trollope.
(d) Dickens.

3. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?
(a) Subject matter.
(b) Genre.
(c) Author's names.
(d) Time period.

4. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?
(a) Sterne.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Austen.

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

6. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) Angrily.
(b) Sadly.
(c) Jubiently.
(d) Disgustedly.

7. How many hours of the day does Forster suppose should be devoted to love?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

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

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

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

11. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
(a) Cambridge University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Oxford University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

13. What is the highest common factor to all novels?
(a) The theme.
(b) The character.
(c) The plot.
(d) The story.

14. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Confusing.
(b) Coincindental.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Congenial.

15. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.
(a) Children.
(b) Word masses.
(c) Creatures.
(d) Babies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Forster say it is impossible to study about literature?

2. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?

3. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

4. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

5. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.

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