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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. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Secret life.
(b) Author's imagination.
(c) After life.
(d) Literature.

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

3. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?
(a) Beauchamp's Career.
(b) Barnaby's Crossing.
(c) The Egoist.
(d) The Bishop's Tale.

4. Plot represents the _______ in literary work.
(a) Form.
(b) Art.
(c) Reason.
(d) Backdrop.

5. Who is the author of Zuleika Dobson?
(a) Percy Lubbock.
(b) Max Beerbohm.
(c) George Meredith.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?

2. Forster distinguishes novels with fantasy and novels with prophecy by their what?

3. Forster says if rhythm is done badly it hardens into a what?

4. When comparing plot and drama, Forster visualizes plot as what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Forster define plot?

3. What does Forster describe as being a typical character in a Henry James novel?

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

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

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

7. What does Forster mean when he says that the plot in the novel is its most logical intellectual aspect?

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

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

10. How does Forster describe the Dostoevsky character, Dmitri Karamazov?

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