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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 of Thais?
(a) London.
(b) Paris.
(c) Alexandria.
(d) Rome.

2. According to Forster, Moby Dick should be seen as a what?
(a) Contest.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Failure.
(d) Symbol.

3. Forster says there are elements of music in War and Peace, which he refers to as a "___________ book."
(a) Untidy.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Chaotic.
(d) Amazing.

4. Who is the author of Moby Dick?
(a) Melville.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Joyce.

5. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?
(a) Trojan War.
(b) Odyssey.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Hercules.

6. What is the name of the main character in The Ambassadors?
(a) Sullivan.
(b) Smith.
(c) Strether.
(d) Stevens.

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

8. Forster says ___________ never comes off in novels.
(a) Death.
(b) Humility.
(c) Indignation.
(d) Religion.

9. What is the one short story that Forster discusses in his lectures?
(a) Coco.
(b) Billy Bud.
(c) The Pit and the Pendulum.
(d) The Birthmark.

10. Forster considers Roman Pictures to be a __________.
(a) Social comedy.
(b) Love story.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Fantasy.

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

12. Which Meredith novel does Forster use to demonstrate a character with a concealed emotion?
(a) Beauchamp's Career.
(b) The Egoist.
(c) Barnaby's Crossing.
(d) The Bishop's Tale.

13. In comparing music and literature, Forster says a novelist must try to achieve what?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Song.
(c) Expansion.
(d) Symmetry.

14. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?
(a) The Bishop's Tale.
(b) The Egoist.
(c) Barnaby's Crossing.
(d) Beauchamp's Career.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Ulysses?

2. Forster says that Meredith was the greatest _____ that English fiction ever produced.

3. Which author does Forster say his own priggishness prevents him from enjoying?

4. What does Forster call the small gods that he says haunt us today?

5. Who does Forster say demonstrates rhythm in the easy sense in his writing?

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