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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster discusses the death of the character Mrs.Proudie in a novel by whom?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Austen.

2. Forster wonders how ____ will combine with the "furniture of common sense" when it comes to prophecy.
(a) Song.
(b) Dance.
(c) Plot.
(d) Characters.

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

4. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Secret life.
(b) After life.
(c) Author's imagination.
(d) Literature.

5. Who is the one living prophetic novelist that Forster names at the time of his lecture series?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Henry James.
(c) George Eliot.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the thing a novelist should never aim for, but fails if this is not achieved?

2. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

3. Which Meredith novel does Forster discuss at length?

4. A plot requires a reader's intelligence and __________.

5. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?

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