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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. Who is the author of The Brothers Karamazov?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Trollope.
(c) Joyce.
(d) Dostoevsky.

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

3. What is the setting of Thais?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Rome.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

4. Which one of the following is NOT an author that Forster considers to use prophecy well?
(a) Melville.
(b) Dostoevsky.
(c) Bronte.
(d) Joyce.

5. What is the name of the main character in Moby Dick?
(a) Annish.
(b) Isaac.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Ishmael.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Boon?

2. The novel Joseph Andrews is an adaptation of what novel?

3. Which author does Forster refer to as a preacher, not a prophet?

4. Which author does Forster refer to when talking about the chaos that prophecy can bring to a novel?

5. What is the setting of The Ambassadors?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Forster define prophecy in terms of fiction?

2. How does Forster distinguish between fantasy and prophecy as aspects of the novel?

3. What are the two basic elements that Forster comes back to again and again throughout the lecture series?

4. What does Forster mean when he says that the plot in the novel is its most logical intellectual aspect?

5. What does Forster mean when he says that the works of Melville, Dostoevsky, and D.H. Lawrence have an "intermittent realism"?

6. What is Forster's opinion of readers who do not like fantasy?

7. What are the two elements that Forster says are necessary for plot?

8. What role does the setting play in novels by Henry James?

9. How does Forster define plot?

10. What does Forster say that the fantasy aspect of a novel requires from the reader?

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