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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Forster say it is impossible to study about literature?
(a) Reason.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Plot.
(d) Value.

2. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
(a) Editing.
(b) Suspense.
(c) Theme.
(d) Drama.

3. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?
(a) 200.
(b) 160.
(c) 75.
(d) 150.

4. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?
(a) Mutiny.
(b) Love.
(c) Malice.
(d) Amusement.

5. William George Clark is best known for being what?
(a) Novelist.
(b) Minister.
(c) Humorist.
(d) Shakespearean Scholar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster refers to characters as ________ created by the novelist.

2. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.

3. What does Forster use as an example of something all humans have that rarely gets mentioned in novels?

4. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?

5. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?

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