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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 believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Past.
(c) Structure.
(d) Notes.

2. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?
(a) Anothony Trollope.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) George Meredith.
(d) Daniel Defoe.

3. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
(a) Oxford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Cambridge University.

4. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?
(a) Pickpocket.
(b) Barkeeper.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Highwayman.

5. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Extraneous.
(c) Controversial.
(d) Fundamental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?

2. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

3. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.

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

5. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Forster trying to illustrate through the work of Gertrude Stein?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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