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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) The Old Wives' Tale.
(c) The Antiquary.
(d) The Swiss Family Robinson.

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

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

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

5. Which George Eliot novel does Forster refer to in his discussion of prophecy?
(a) The Mill on the Floss.
(b) Middlemarch.
(c) Adam Bede.
(d) Silas Marner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Meredith novel does Forster use to demonstrate a character with a concealed emotion?

3. What is the setting of The Ambassadors?

4. Which one of the following is NOT an author that Forster considers to use prophecy well?

5. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?

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