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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?
2. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
3. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?
4. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.
5. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Forster say that Scheherazade avoids her fate?
2. Why are flat characters sometimes referred to as humorous characters?
3. What does Forster demonstrate with the first sentence of The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott?
4. According to Forster, what is the purpose of food in fiction?
5. What does Forster believe is part of the genius of Dickens' characters?
6. What does Forster consider to be the strangest of the five basic elements of life?
7. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?
8. What are the two sides of a human being as described by the French critic Alain?
9. What commonality does Forster see between the writings of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
10. Why does Forster illustrate through the novel Moll Flanders?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship that Forster paints between prophecy and symbolism? Discuss this in terms of Melville and other novelists.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss whether or not Forster showed significant difference between the story and the plot as aspects of the novel. Use examples both from Forster and modern novels.
Essay Topic 3
Perhaps the most elusive of Forster's aspects is rhythm. How does Forster define this aspect? Is there a better way to explain it? If it is so hard to attain, why does Forster include it as one of the seven aspects? Does a good novel need to uphold all seven aspects?
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