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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author think can also provide ideas for additional characters?
(a) The future of central characters.
(b) The pasts of central characters.
(c) The future of supporting characters.
(d) The pasts of supporting characters.
2. What kind of narrative should a storyteller use?
(a) Effective and engaging.
(b) Effective and involved.
(c) Effective and poetic.
(d) Effective and condensed.
3. What does the contract between an author and a reader state?
(a) That the narrative will introduce more characters.
(b) That the narrative will reach a conclusion.
(c) That the narrative will introduce less characters.
(d) That the narrative will have a happy ending.
4. How will the story itself suggest characters?
(a) According to what needs to happen, but not how it needs to take place.
(b) According to the beginning of a story.
(c) According to what needs to happen and how it needs to take place.
(d) According to the ending of a story.
5. What happens to sources of inspiration once they are incorporated into characters?
(a) They are added to or completely changed.
(b) They are added to or exaggerated.
(c) They are exaggerated or completely changed.
(d) They are added to, exaggerated, or completely changed.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one of the problems with writing based on an issue?
2. How many different aspects of creative writing are there?
3. How necessary is it for characters to be more than stereotypes in a narrative where an idea is the primary focus?
4. What technique can help avoid cliché?
5. What should the writer's own experiences have in order to be used as fictional inspiration?
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