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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. Who is the author of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Percy Lubbock.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) George Meredith.
(d) Max Beerbohm.
2. A plot requires a reader's intelligence and __________.
(a) Emotion.
(b) Memory.
(c) Sensibility.
(d) Commitment.
3. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Literature.
(b) Secret life.
(c) Author's imagination.
(d) After life.
4. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Odyssey.
(c) Oedipus.
(d) Trojan War.
5. Who is the author of Ulysses?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Homer.
(c) E.M. Forster.
(d) Henry James.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the one short story that Forster discusses in his lectures?
2. What does Forster say is absolutely essential to a plot?
3. What is the setting of Thais?
4. What does Forster say is one of the lowest of human faculties?
5. What novel does Forster refer to when discussing the supernatural aspect of fantasy?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Forster describe the Dostoevsky character, Dmitri Karamazov?
2. How does a Marcel Proust novel demonstrate the aspect of rhythm?
3. Why does Forster say that novelist Thomas Hardy is essentially a poet?
4. Who does Forster classify as the prophet and the non-prophet in literature?
5. What does Forster mean when he says that the plot in the novel is its most logical intellectual aspect?
6. What does Forster say that the fantasy aspect of a novel requires from the reader?
7. What does Forster mean when he describes a novel with a grand chain pattern?
8. What is the difference between an inquisitive novel reader and an intelligent one, according to Forster?
9. What is the metaphor that Forster uses to describe literary criticism?
10. What two qualities does Forster believe the aspect of prophecy demands from a reader?
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