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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are flat characters called in the seventeenth century?
(a) Flaties.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Paper thin.
(d) Humans.

2. What does Scott accomplish in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Introducing the characters.
(b) Boring the reader.
(c) Determine the plot.
(d) Setting the scene.

3. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.
(a) Backbone.
(b) Border.
(c) Requirement.
(d) Repository.

4. In a work in which the author classifies novels by weather, how many different headings are there?
(a) Ten.
(b) Nine.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

5. Forster believes daily life is made up of time and ___________.
(a) Love.
(b) Labor.
(c) Value.
(d) Boredom.

6. What is the name of the popular text William George Clark wrote?
(a) Globe Shakespeare.
(b) Globe Theater and Shakespeare.
(c) Shakespearean Globe.
(d) Shakespeare Around the Globe.

7. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.
(a) Controversial.
(b) Coincindental.
(c) Congenial.
(d) Confusing.

8. In Forster's opinion, what is the key failing of English fiction?
(a) Characters.
(b) Value.
(c) Provincialism.
(d) Plot.

9. What subject do the excerpts of H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens that Forster compares in the Introduction both describe?
(a) Weddings.
(b) Love.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Funerals.

10. What is the name of the young man in the first sentence of The Antiquary?
(a) Edie.
(b) Laurence.
(c) Lovel.
(d) Jonathon.

11. What is the only literary tool to have an effect on tyrants and savages?
(a) Editing.
(b) Drama.
(c) Theme.
(d) Suspense.

12. Who is the author of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders?
(a) Daniel Defoe.
(b) George Meredith.
(c) Charles Dickens.
(d) Anothony Trollope.

13. Forster compares the story as the _________ of the novel.
(a) Enemy.
(b) Parent.
(c) Tapeworm.
(d) Pet.

14. Flat characters are seldom used in what type of novels?
(a) German.
(b) Russian.
(c) English.
(d) French.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of food in fiction is mostly a ____________ one.

2. Which character from the novel Evan Harrington is a good example of a memorable flat character?

3. What is the name of the Jane Austen character that Forster uses to illustrate "life like" aspects of characters?

4. Through characters, novels give the reader the illusion of _________________.

5. In which novel does Forster say that the author bounces the reader around characters?

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