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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Forster speculates that in the future man may harness what?
(a) The wind.
(b) Time.
(c) The sun.
(d) The atom.

2. As Forster begins the second section on People, he says that he turns from transplantation of characters to what?
(a) Acclimation.
(b) Assistance.
(c) Assimilation.
(d) Assertion.

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

4. Forster believes the truest way to look at a novel is by examining the author's what?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Past.
(c) Notes.
(d) Structure.

5. Forster says by putting all of the novelists' writing in one room he has put their work through the crucible of what?
(a) Time.
(b) Value.
(c) Desire.
(d) Inspiration.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest common factor to all novels?

2. Forster refers to prophecy as being a(n) _______ in the novelist's voice.

3. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?

4. All writers, regardless of time period or subject matter, write because of what?

5. Forster likens the development of the novel to the development of what?

(see the answer key)

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