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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Forster considers a novel to be any fictitious prose over __________ words.
(a) 100,000.
(b) 60,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 50,000.

3. What is the name of the book that William George Clark wrote about his time in Spain?
(a) Gauchos.
(b) Gazpacho.
(c) Groucho.
(d) Galapogas.

4. Who does Forster say is the real hero of The Old Wives' Tale?
(a) Character.
(b) Plot.
(c) Time.
(d) Value.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Forster say saved his life by telling good stories?

2. According to Forster, the story is the ___________ of a voice in the novel.

3. Forster contends that while The Antiquary has suspense, it lacks what?

4. In the introductory section, Forster quotes from whom to describe the duties of the critic?

5. Forster says that Virginia Woolf is a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two sides of a human being as described by the French critic Alain?

2. What does Forster demonstrate with the first sentence of The Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott?

3. What does Forster look at in terms of characters in the second section on People?

4. What does Forster consider to be the strangest of the five basic elements of life?

5. Why does Forster illustrate through the novel Moll Flanders?

6. How does Forster say that Scheherazade avoids her fate?

7. What does Forster believe is part of the genius of Dickens' characters?

8. What are the guidelines William George Clark requests for the lecture series he began at Trinity College?

9. According to Forster, what is the purpose of food in fiction?

10. Why does Forster believe an Austen novel is more complicated than a Defoe novel?

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