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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster says that permanency is one of the illusions attached to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Birth.

2. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Lawrence Sterne.
(c) Leo Tolstoy.
(d) D.H. Lawrence.

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

4. The story appeals to what is ___________ in people.
(a) Progressive.
(b) Modern.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Primative.

5. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?
(a) Story.
(b) Theme.
(c) Passion.
(d) Marketability.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of the husband Moll loves deeply in the novel?

2. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

3. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?

4. How does Forster say he would answer the question, "What does a novel do?"

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

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