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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the setting for Flecker's Magic?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Athens.

2. Aristotle said characters give the reader qualities through _________.
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Actions.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Emotions.

3. What is the setting of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Trinity.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Buckingham.

4. What is the setting of Ulysses?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Dublin.
(d) Athens.

5. A Meredithian plot resembles a series of what?
(a) Kiosks.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Valleys.
(d) Questions.

6. Which George Eliot novel does Forster refer to in his discussion of prophecy?
(a) Middlemarch.
(b) The Mill on the Floss.
(c) Silas Marner.
(d) Adam Bede.

7. Forster says an easy way to define any aspect of fiction is to consider what kind of ___________ it makes on the reader.
(a) Force.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Demand.
(d) Impression.

8. The novel Thais is in the pattern of what?
(a) Circle.
(b) Hourglass.
(c) Chain.
(d) Triangle.

9. Forster quotes George Meredith as saying we must live by the ___________ or the block.
(a) Sword.
(b) Promise.
(c) Future.
(d) Pen.

10. When comparing plot and drama, Forster visualizes plot as what?
(a) Queen of England.
(b) Higher government official.
(c) Grand Dame.
(d) Lowly paid worker.

11. What novel does Forster refer to when discussing the supernatural aspect of fantasy?
(a) Shane McDadey.
(b) Wisdom's Window.
(c) Tristram Shandy.
(d) All The Gods.

12. What does Forster say is the enduring effect of The Ambassadors?
(a) Mimicry.
(b) Satire.
(c) Symmetry.
(d) Memory.

13. What is the name of the main character in Moby Dick?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Annish.
(c) Ishmael.
(d) Aaron.

14. Forster says if rhythm is done badly it hardens into a what?
(a) Song.
(b) Symbol.
(c) Parody.
(d) Joke.

15. Which author does Forster refer to when talking about the chaos that prophecy can bring to a novel?
(a) Lawrence Sterne.
(b) Emily Bronte.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) George Meredith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Thais?

2. What is the name of the main character in The Brothers Karamazov?

3. What does Forster say is one of the lowest of human faculties?

4. What is the name of the main character in The Ambassadors?

5. The novel Joseph Andrews is an adaptation of what novel?

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