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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. Aristotle said characters give the reader qualities through _________.
(a) Actions.
(b) Narrative.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Dialogue.

2. Which one of the following is NOT an author that Forster considers to use prophecy well?
(a) Joyce.
(b) Bronte.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Melville.

3. Which author does Forster refer to as a preacher, not a prophet?
(a) George Eliot.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Fyodor Dostoevsky.
(d) Henry James.

4. Who does Forster say has novels with plots that "triumph too completely?"
(a) Thomas Hardy.
(b) Andre Gide.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the novel Ulysses adapted from?

2. What is the setting of Zuleika Dobson?

3. Who is the author of Roman Pictures?

4. To explore fantasy, who does Forster call upon?

5. Who is the main character in the George Eliot novel that Forster uses to illustrate prophecy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Forster mean when he describes the novel Thais as being in the shape of an hourglass?

3. What are the two basic elements that Forster comes back to again and again throughout the lecture series?

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

5. What does Forster say that the fantasy aspect of a novel requires from the reader?

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

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

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

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

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

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