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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 say it is impossible to study about literature?
2. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?
3. What is the highest common factor to all novels?
4. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?
5. Forster gives his series of lectures on the Aspects of the Novel at Trinity College at _______________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?
2. What is Forster's definition of a pseudo-scholar?
3. What does Forster consider to be the strangest of the five basic elements of life?
4. What does Forster say is the difference between a novel and a memoir?
5. Why does Forster illustrate through the novel Moll Flanders?
6. What does Forster believe is part of the genius of Dickens' characters?
7. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?
8. What does Forster look at in terms of characters in the second section on People?
9. According to Forster, what does a good novel do?
10. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is Forster reluctant to admit that the primary component of a novel is its story?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
How does Forster's point about how varied points of view reflect life parallel his points about characters made in the first People section?
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