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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

2. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.
(a) History.
(b) Artists.
(c) Writers.
(d) Novels.

3. What does Forster say it is impossible to study about literature?
(a) Reason.
(b) Plot.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Value.

4. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Action.
(c) Story.
(d) Plot.

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

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

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

8. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?
(a) Gazpacho.
(b) Galapogas.
(c) Groucho.
(d) Gauchos.

9. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Florida.
(c) Australia.
(d) Virginia.

10. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.
(a) Pseudo-scholar.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Scholar.
(d) Expert.

11. According to Forster, what is the final test of a novel?
(a) Critical acclaim.
(b) Financial gains of the author.
(c) Time it is published.
(d) Our affection for it.

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

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

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

15. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Perspective.
(b) Peace.
(c) Predictability.
(d) Perspicacity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?

2. Whose method with character does Forster believe has been misunderstood?

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

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

5. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?

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