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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 Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Trinity.
(b) Buckingham.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Oxford.

2. Who is the author of Les Faux Monnayeurs?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Andre Gide.
(d) Anthony Trollope.

3. Who does Forster say is a character type that is seen in many Henry James novels?
(a) Mamie.
(b) Missie.
(c) Mama.
(d) Maude.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The novel Joseph Andrews is an adaptation of what novel?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Pamela.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Audrey.

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

14. What is the name of the main character in The Brothers Karamazov?
(a) Mitya.
(b) Carl.
(c) Bruno.
(d) Yuri.

15. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Author's imagination.
(b) After life.
(c) Literature.
(d) Secret life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster says ___________ never comes off in novels.

2. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?

3. What is the name of the main character in Les Fax Monnayeurs?

4. Which author does Forster refer to as a preacher, not a prophet?

5. What is the setting of Ulysses?

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