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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. In The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, the character is _____________.
(a) Secondary.
(b) Everything.
(c) Existential.
(d) Arbitrary.

2. The critic Norman Douglas writes an open letter to which author?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Lawrence Sterne.
(c) D.H. Lawrence.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

3. Which author does the critic Percy Lubbock feel does not do a good job with point of view?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Melville.
(d) Dickens.

4. All writers, regardless of time period or subject matter, write because of what?
(a) Greed.
(b) Desire.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Inspiration.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The historian ______________, while the novelist creates.

2. According to Forster, what is the final test of a novel?

3. How many years separate the writing of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?

4. Who is the Antiquary in Scott's novel?

5. Works that deal with real people are called what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tone that Forster notes both in the writing of Laurence Sterne and Virginia Woolf?

2. What is one of the reasons that love is "unduly prominent" in novels, according to Forster?

3. As defined by Forster, when is a character in a novel real?

4. Why are flat characters sometimes referred to as humorous characters?

5. Why, in Forster's opinion, is Sir Walter Scott a popular novelist?

6. How does Forster define the novel in its most basic terms?

7. What does Forster mean by a "sense of space" in War and Peace?

8. What commonality does Forster see between the writings of Henry James and Samuel Richardson?

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

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

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