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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Forster considers what to be the enemy when studying literature?
(a) Mood.
(b) Value.
(c) Time.
(d) Place.

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

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

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

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

7. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 60,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 30,000.

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

9. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Birth.
(c) Death.
(d) Food.

10. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?
(a) Bronte.
(b) Austen.
(c) Scheherade.
(d) Stein.

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

12. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Jonathon.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Laurence.
(d) Edie.

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

14. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?
(a) Ragged ends.
(b) Clever ploys.
(c) Pointless blobs.
(d) Annoying bits.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

2. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?

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

4. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

5. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?

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