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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which novel does Forster say has a sense of space?
(a) Emma.
(b) The Antiquary.
(c) War of the Worlds.
(d) War and Peace.

2. What is the highest common factor to all novels?
(a) The character.
(b) The plot.
(c) The theme.
(d) The story.

3. Fictional characters come into the world more like what than human beings?
(a) Particles.
(b) Parcels.
(c) Animals.
(d) Antics.

4. Whose characters does Forster describe as being as "flat as a photograph"?
(a) H.G. Wells.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Charles Dickens.

5. In a work in which the author classifies novels by weather, how many different headings are there?
(a) Five.
(b) Nine.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. The plot of a novel asks what question?

2. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?

3. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?

4. A Meredithian plot resembles a series of what?

5. Forster says that neither ________ nor anticipation is interested in Father Time.

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