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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 he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Transcribing.
(c) Paraphrasing.
(d) Translating.

2. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 100,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 60,000.

3. How many hours of the day does Forster suppose should be devoted to love?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty-four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

4. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Assertion.
(b) Acclimation.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Assistance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?

3. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

4. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?

5. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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