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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. All writers, regardless of time period or subject matter, write because of what?
(a) Desire.
(b) Greed.
(c) Inspiration.
(d) Frustration.

2. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Paper thin.
(b) Humans.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Flaties.

3. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
(a) College.
(b) Politics.
(c) Prison.
(d) War.

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

5. What does Forster call characters like Miss Grizzle in The Antiquary?
(a) Annoying bits.
(b) Pointless blobs.
(c) Clever ploys.
(d) Ragged ends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?

2. What is the highest common factor to all novels?

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

4. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.

5. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Forster believe is part of the genius of Dickens' characters?

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

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