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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"
(a) Angrily.
(b) Jubiently.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Disgustedly.

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

3. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?
(a) T. S. Elliot.
(b) C.S. Lewis.
(c) Sir Walter Scott.
(d) William George Clark.

4. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?
(a) Miss Grizzle.
(b) Lovel.
(c) Edie Ochiltree.
(d) Jonathon Oldbuck.

5. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Notes.
(c) Structure.
(d) Past.

Short Answer Questions

1. Birth and death are the what of the five facts of human life?

2. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.

3. Forster says that history is dominated by a sense of what?

4. In a work in which the author classifies novels by weather, how many different headings are there?

5. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.

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