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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. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) Disgustedly.
(b) Jubiently.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Sadly.

2. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?
(a) Author's names.
(b) Subject matter.
(c) Time period.
(d) Genre.

3. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Sir Walter Scott.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

4. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.
(a) Sustenance.
(b) Subtley.
(c) Substance.
(d) Social.

5. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?
(a) Write.
(b) Read.
(c) Listen.
(d) Study.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.

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

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

4. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

5. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. William George Clark was known as a Shakespearean scholar, but he also published two books on other subjects. What other books does Clark publish?

4. How does Forster define the novel in its most basic terms?

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

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

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

8. What does Forster say is the difference between a novel and a memoir?

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

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

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