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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster starts his discussion of round characters with the novel ____________.
(a) Mansfield Park.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) Emma.
(d) Wuthering Heights.

2. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.
(a) Retreats.
(b) Regrets.
(c) Records.
(d) Receives.

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

4. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Proust.
(c) Austen.
(d) Dickens.

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

6. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?
(a) Characters.
(b) Provincialism.
(c) Plot.
(d) Value.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) A zookeeper.
(b) A golfer.
(c) A writer.
(d) A bus driver.

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

15. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?
(a) Alain.
(b) Jean Claude.
(c) Jacque.
(d) Alaque.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the second hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"

3. Which author does the critic Percy Lubbock feel does not do a good job with point of view?

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

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

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