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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. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?
2. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
3. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?
4. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?
5. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Forster mean by a "sense of space" in War and Peace?
2. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?
3. What is Forster trying to illustrate through the work of Gertrude Stein?
4. What does Forster believe to be the flaws in Sir Walter Scott's writing?
5. What is Forster's definition of a pseudo-scholar?
6. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?
7. What does Forster believe is part of the genius of Dickens' characters?
8. How does Forster define the novel in its most basic terms?
9. What is one of the reasons that love is "unduly prominent" in novels, according to Forster?
10. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who are the authors that Forster expresses admiration for regarding their attempts at breaking the mold of certain aspects of the novel? Does it matter that he views their attempts as mostly unsuccessful?
Essay Topic 2
How is Forster's exploration of the aspects of fantasy and prophecy at the core of his overall philosophy on the novel? What is the fine line between these two aspects?
Essay Topic 3
How does Forster tie in his main theme that the purpose of novels is to allow the reader a deeper, broader understanding of life with his discussion of the People aspect of the novel?
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