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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Forster call the small gods that he says haunt us today?
(a) Imps.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Sprites.
(d) Pixies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who does Forster say has novels with plots that "triumph too completely?"
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Andre Gide.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

11. Who is the author of The Brothers Karamazov?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Tolstoy.

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

13. To explore fantasy, who does Forster call upon?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Appollo.

14. What is the thing a novelist should never aim for, but fails if this is not achieved?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Genius.
(d) Wisdom.

15. Forster distinguishes novels with fantasy and novels with prophecy by their what?
(a) Plots.
(b) Mythologies.
(c) Characters.
(d) Themes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Roman Pictures?

2. What does prophecy require from the reader in addition to a suspension of a sense of humor?

3. Forster says it is wrong to see the __________ in Moby Dick as a symbol.

4. Forster wonders if there is any rhythm in novels comparable to ____________.

5. Which George Eliot novel does Forster refer to in his discussion of prophecy?

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