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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Structure.
(b) Notes.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Past.
2. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Marcel Proust.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.
3. The plot of a novel asks what question?
(a) When?
(b) Why?
(c) How?
(d) Where?
4. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.
(a) Predictability.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Perspicacity.
(d) Peace.
5. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 50,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 30,000.
Short Answer Questions
1. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?
2. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
3. What is the thing a novelist should never aim for, but fails if this is not achieved?
4. Storytelling is the ____________ aspect of the novel.
5. Who is the second hypothetical person to whom Forster poses the question, "What does a novel do?"
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