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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Novelists unintentionally make their characters overly sensitive to what?
(a) Love.
(b) Food.
(c) Birth.
(d) Death.

2. What does Forster believe a good novel is "sogged with"?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Action.
(c) Plot.
(d) Story.

3. What year does Charles Dickens publish Great Expectations?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1860.

4. What is the name of the French critic Forster quotes in his discussion of People?
(a) Alain.
(b) Jean Claude.
(c) Alaque.
(d) Jacque.

5. Forster sees the two movements of the human mind being the rush of history and the other being _________.
(a) A train.
(b) Bird in flight.
(c) Currents.
(d) Crablike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does Forster say his own priggishness prevents him from enjoying?

2. Forster says he is not analyzing The Antiquary, but rather _____________ it.

3. Who does Forster quote at the end of his discussion on prophecy?

4. What is the name of the main character in Les Fax Monnayeurs?

5. The test of a round character is whether it is capable of _________ the reader.

(see the answer key)

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