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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 75.
(b) 150.
(c) 200.
(d) 160.

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

6. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.
(a) Enemy.
(b) Tapeworm.
(c) Pet.
(d) Parent.

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

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

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

10. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?
(a) Milton.
(b) Meredith.
(c) Browning.
(d) Shakespeare.

11. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?
(a) Emma.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) Mansfield Park.
(d) Bleak House.

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

13. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Flaties.
(b) Humans.
(c) Paper thin.
(d) Humorous.

14. Which characters in The Antiquary does Forster say Scott introduced artlessly?
(a) The Glenwoods.
(b) The Gallenhalls.
(c) The Gallentry.
(d) The Glenallans.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.

3. What is the name of the book written by critic Percy Lubbock?

4. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?

5. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?

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