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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 Ulysses?
(a) Homer.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) E.M. Forster.
(d) Henry James.

2. What is the name of the main character in The Ambassadors?
(a) Sullivan.
(b) Strether.
(c) Smith.
(d) Stevens.

3. Forster says he will borrow from what in describing pattern?
(a) Music.
(b) Painting.
(c) Business.
(d) Art.

4. A plot requires a reader's intelligence and __________.
(a) Memory.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Sensibility.
(d) Commitment.

5. Who does Forster quote at the end of his discussion on prophecy?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Browning.
(c) Blake.
(d) Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of Thais?

2. Who is the author of Moby Dick?

3. Who is the author of Les Faux Monnayeurs?

4. Which Meredith novel does Forster use to demonstrate a character with a concealed emotion?

5. A Meredithian plot resembles a series of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the metaphor that Forster uses to describe literary criticism?

2. How does Forster define prophecy in terms of fiction?

3. Why does Forster disagree with Aristotle about the purpose of characters?

4. What is the relationship between pattern and plot in a novel?

5. What are the two elements that Forster says are necessary for plot?

6. What is the difference between an inquisitive novel reader and an intelligent one, according to Forster?

7. How does a Marcel Proust novel demonstrate the aspect of rhythm?

8. Why does Forster say that novelist Thomas Hardy is essentially a poet?

9. What does Forster mean when he says that the works of Melville, Dostoevsky, and D.H. Lawrence have an "intermittent realism"?

10. How does Forster define plot?

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