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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Forster says novelists find death to be ____________.

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

3. Characters _______ daily life, not coincide with it.

4. Forster's third set of excerpts in the Introduction are from Virgina Woolf and _______________.

5. What novel does Forster refer to as his eternal summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. William George Clark was known as a Shakespearean scholar, but he also published two books on other subjects. What other books does Clark publish?

6. What image does Forster ask his audience to think of so as not to consider literature in the "stream of time"?

7. What is striking about the funerals described in the excerpts by H.G. Wells and Charles Dickens?

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

9. What is Forster trying to illustrate through the work of Gertrude Stein?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the flaws of Forster's arguments throughout the lecture series? Please use references to literature to substantiate the various points.

Essay Topic 2

What is the difference between the life in time and the life by value? How does Forster illustrate this point through the work of Sir Walter Scott?

Essay Topic 3

Why is Forster reluctant to admit that the primary component of a novel is its story?

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