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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. Forster discusses the motto "_______ develops, Art stands still" in the introductory section.
(a) Writers.
(b) Artists.
(c) History.
(d) Novels.

2. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.
(a) Pointless.
(b) Poignant.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Valueless.

3. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
(a) Laurence Sterne.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Samuel Richardson.
(d) Henry James.

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

5. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) Lawrence Sterne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?

2. Forster considers what to be the enemy when studying literature?

3. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?

4. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?

5. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Forster's definition of a pseudo-scholar?

3. What two things does Forster say daily life is comprised of?

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

5. What does Forster believe to be the flaws in Sir Walter Scott's writing?

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

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

8. What is one of the reasons that love is "unduly prominent" in novels, according to Forster?

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

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

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