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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?
(a) Groucho.
(b) Gauchos.
(c) Galapogas.
(d) Gazpacho.

2. Who does Forster use as an example when he discusses the difference between real people and fictional people?
(a) Princess Diana.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Queen Victoria.
(d) Prince Albert.

3. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Love.
(c) Memory.
(d) Loss.

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?
(a) Fanatic.
(b) Failure.
(c) Fantasist.
(d) Futurist.

5. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?
(a) Milton.
(b) Browning.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Meredith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.

2. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.

3. In what year does E.M. Forster present his lecture series, Aspects of the Novel?

4. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.

5. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in Forster's opinion, is Sir Walter Scott a popular novelist?

2. What is the difference between an Austen character and a Dickens character?

3. What is Forster trying to illustrate through the work of Gertrude Stein?

4. What are the two sides of a human being as described by the French critic Alain?

5. What does Forster consider to be the strangest of the five basic elements of life?

6. How does Forster say that Scheherazade avoids her fate?

7. What does Forster look at in terms of characters in the second section on People?

8. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?

9. Why does Forster believe an Austen novel is more complicated than a Defoe novel?

10. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?

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