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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of Les Faux Monnayeurs?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Thomas Hardy.
(c) Andre Gide.
(d) Anthony Trollope.

2. Forster believes that happiness and misery exist in the ___________.
(a) Author's imagination.
(b) Secret life.
(c) Literature.
(d) After life.

3. What is the name of the last ship in Moby Dick that Forster thinks is aptly named?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Wrath.
(c) Delight.
(d) Mercy.

4. Which critic does Forster refer to in the last chapter?
(a) I.A. Richards.
(b) Percy Lubbock.
(c) Alain.
(d) William George Clark.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Zuleika Dobson?

2. Forster uses the musings of who to offer two thoughts on the future of mankind?

3. Forster says characters are full of the spirit of what?

4. Which author has numerous flat characters who can express themselves in a single sentence?

5. Who is the main character in the George Eliot novel that Forster uses to illustrate prophecy?

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