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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.
(a) Laurence Sterne.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Samuel Richardson.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

2. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Daniel Defoe.
(c) George Meredith.
(d) Anothony Trollope.

3. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?
(a) Barkeeper.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Highwayman.
(d) Doctor.

4. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.
(a) Sustenance.
(b) Social.
(c) Subtley.
(d) Substance.

5. Who tries to abolish time in a novel according to Forster?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) Marcel Proust.
(c) Gertrude Stein.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?

2. To be a true critic of literature, one must do what?

3. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?

4. A novel that does not include an aspect of time is _____________.

5. Considering literature on the basis of time periods is the act of the ________________.

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