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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?
(a) Mrs. Bennet.
(b) Miss Bates.
(c) Mr. Baker.
(d) Elizabeth Bennet.

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

4. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Setting the scene.
(b) Introducing the characters.
(c) Determine the plot.
(d) Boring the reader.

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

6. Which author does the critic Percy Lubbock feel does not do a good job with point of view?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Melville.

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

8. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?
(a) Study.
(b) Write.
(c) Read.
(d) Listen.

9. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Extraneous.
(c) Fundamental.
(d) Controversial.

10. 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.

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

12. 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.

13. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Imperfect.
(c) Visible.
(d) Invisible.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which characters in The Antiquary does Forster say Scott introduced artlessly?

4. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?

5. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

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