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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?
(a) Death.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Birth.
(d) Love.

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

3. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
(a) Fatality.
(b) Frustration.
(c) Futility.
(d) Fury.

4. In the People section, Forster says that novelists are appealing to more than our _________ when it comes to the characters of a novel.
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Intelligence.

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

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

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

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

9. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?
(a) Passion.
(b) Marketability.
(c) Theme.
(d) Story.

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

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

12. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) George Meredith.
(c) Anothony Trollope.
(d) Daniel Defoe.

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

14. Forster says he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.
(a) Translating.
(b) Transcribing.
(c) Paraphrasing.
(d) Enlightening.

15. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?
(a) Russian.
(b) English.
(c) German.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.

2. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?

3. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

4. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?

5. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?

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