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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) Charles Dickens.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Lawrence Sterne.

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

3. Whose method with character does Forster believe has been misunderstood?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Austen.
(c) Melville.
(d) Dickens.

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

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

6. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?
(a) Character.
(b) Plot.
(c) Value.
(d) Time.

7. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Stein.
(c) Austen.
(d) Scheherade.

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

9. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.
(a) Poignant.
(b) Valueless.
(c) Pointless.
(d) Valuable.

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

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

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

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

14. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 30,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 100,000.

15. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.

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

3. Which character from the novel Evan Harrington is a good example of a memorable flat character?

4. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

5. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?

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