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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.
(a) Parallel.
(b) Propel.
(c) Paint.
(d) Process.

2. Characters must not spread themselves out too far, but rather should ____________.
(a) Eat, drink, and be merry.
(b) Think small.
(c) Be consistent.
(d) Exercise mutual restraint.

3. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of _________ the reader.
(a) Fooling.
(b) Comforting.
(c) Surprising.
(d) Engaging.

4. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Repository.
(b) Border.
(c) Backbone.
(d) Requirement.

5. Forster surmises that the character Moll was born out the author's experience in _____________.
(a) War.
(b) College.
(c) Politics.
(d) Prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?

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

3. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

4. Where is Moll sent after she is caught stealing?

5. What is the silliest way Forster believes there is to classify novels?

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