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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. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
2. What is the name of the book written by critic Percy Lubbock?
3. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
4. Who is the first hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
5. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why, in Forster's opinion, is Sir Walter Scott a popular novelist?
2. Why does Forster believe an Austen novel is more complicated than a Defoe novel?
3. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?
4. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?
5. What commonality does Forster see between the writings of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
6. What does Forster mean by a "sense of space" in War and Peace?
7. What two things does Forster say daily life is comprised of?
8. What is the difference between an Austen character and a Dickens character?
9. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?
10. What is Forster trying to illustrate through the work of Gertrude Stein?
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
What is the distinction Forster makes between prophecy and preaching? Why is this an important distinction to the overall quality of a novel?
Essay Topic 3
What does Forster contend is the important difference between real people and people in novels? Why is this an important distinction? Using research on Forster himself, what is the irony of his discussion of the importance of real people keeping their secrets?
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