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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. Which author does Forster say is a genius with characters who are caricatures?
(a) Sterne.
(b) Austen.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Trollope.

2. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?
(a) Austen.
(b) Stein.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Scheherade.

3. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?
(a) The Swiss Family Robinson.
(b) The Old Wives' Tale.
(c) The Antiquary.
(d) War and Peace.

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

5. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?
(a) Mrs. Bennet.
(b) Mr. Baker.
(c) Elizabeth Bennet.
(d) Miss Bates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

2. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

3. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?

4. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?

5. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of _________ the reader.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Forster illustrate through the novel Moll Flanders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Forster describe the point of view in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens?

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

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