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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 says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Confusing.
(b) Coincindental.
(c) Congenial.
(d) Controversial.
2. Who is the second hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) A zookeeper.
(b) A writer.
(c) A golfer.
(d) A bus driver.
3. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Particles.
(b) Animals.
(c) Parcels.
(d) Antics.
4. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Fury.
(c) Fatality.
(d) Futility.
5. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.
(a) Eat, drink, and be merry.
(b) Be consistent.
(c) Exercise mutual restraint.
(d) Think small.
Short Answer Questions
1. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
2. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?
3. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
4. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
5. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
Short Essay Questions
1. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?
2. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?
3. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?
4. Why does Forster believe an Austen novel is more complicated than a Defoe novel?
5. What does Forster mean when he says that novels give us the "illusion of perspicacity"?
6. What does Forster believe to be the flaws in Sir Walter Scott's writing?
7. What is the difference between an Austen character and a Dickens character?
8. What does Forster look at in terms of characters in the second section on People?
9. How does Forster define the novel in its most basic terms?
10. What does Forster say is the difference between a novel and a memoir?
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