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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. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Predictability.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Perspicacity.
(d) Peace.

2. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?
(a) Jean Claude.
(b) Alain.
(c) Jacque.
(d) Alaque.

3. Who is the second hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) A golfer.
(b) A bus driver.
(c) A zookeeper.
(d) A writer.

4. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Charles Dickens.
(c) H.G. Wells.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

5. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) T. S. Elliot.
(c) C.S. Lewis.
(d) William George Clark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the book written by critic Percy Lubbock?

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

3. Which poet does Forster say has made eating somewhat sensuous in his poems?

4. Which character from the novel Evan Harrington is a good example of a memorable flat character?

5. Works that deal with real people are called what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?

7. What is striking about the funerals described in the excerpts by H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens?

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

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

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

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