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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. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Border.
(b) Requirement.
(c) Repository.
(d) Backbone.

2. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?
(a) Study.
(b) Listen.
(c) Read.
(d) Write.

3. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 75.
(b) 200.
(c) 160.
(d) 150.

4. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?
(a) Australia.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Florida.
(d) Virginia.

5. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
(a) Love.
(b) Christmas.
(c) Weddings.
(d) Funerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster starts his discussion of round characters with the novel ____________.

2. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.

3. The secret lives of people in novels are __________.

4. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?

5. Which character from the novel Evan Harrington is a good example of a memorable flat character?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Forster say is the difference between a novel and a memoir?

3. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?

4. What does Forster mean when he says that novels give us the "illusion of perspicacity"?

5. What does Forster demonstrate with the first sentence of The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott?

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

7. Why are flat characters sometimes referred to as humorous characters?

8. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?

9. According to Forster, what is the purpose of food in fiction?

10. What does Forster mean by a "sense of space" in War and Peace?

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