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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. To explore fantasy, who does Forster call upon?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Appollo.
(d) Aphrodite.

2. Who is the author of The Brothers Karamazov?
(a) Dostoevsky.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Joyce.

3. Forster wonders if there is any rhythm in novels comparable to ____________.
(a) The Fifth Symphony.
(b) Pastoral Symphony.
(c) Symphony No. 7.
(d) Symphony No. 3.

4. What is the setting of Ulysses?
(a) Paris.
(b) Dublin.
(c) Athens.
(d) London.

5. What is the one short story that Forster discusses in his lectures?
(a) Billy Bud.
(b) Coco.
(c) The Birthmark.
(d) The Pit and the Pendulum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster says he will borrow from what in describing pattern?

2. Plot represents the _______ in literary work.

3. What is the name of the main character in The Ambassadors?

4. What is the name of the main character in Les Fax Monnayeurs?

5. The novel Joseph Andrews is an adaptation of what novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Forster mean when he describes a novel with a grand chain pattern?

3. What is Forster's opinion of readers who do not like fantasy?

4. What two qualities does Forster believe the aspect of prophecy demands from a reader?

5. Who does Forster classify as the prophet and the non-prophet in literature?

6. Why does Forster refer to George Elliot as a preacher?

7. How does Forster distinguish between fantasy and prophecy as aspects of the novel?

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

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

10. How does Forster define plot?

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