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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will a writer discover when they take their eyes off of the main character?
(a) Who is nearby.
(b) What is far away.
(c) Who is far away.
(d) What is nearby.

2. What kind of traits should a writer use when first introducing a character?
(a) Broad-strokes.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Limiting.
(d) Detailed.

3. Which one of the following is not an example of a character trait that will gain an emotional connection with the reader?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Negativity.
(c) Ambiguity.
(d) Positive attitude.

4. What is one of fiction's most important purposes?
(a) To make the reader feel more uncomfortable.
(b) To make the reader feel less uncomfortable.
(c) To make the reader feel less sorrow.
(d) To make the reader feel more sorrow.

5. What Ayn Rand book, mentioned in Chapter 12, features sympathetic characters that are not transformed, but unmasked?
(a) Anthem.
(b) The Fountainhead.
(c) We the Living.
(d) The Voice of Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will help a writer to maintain consistency?

2. According to the author in the beginning of Chapter 12, what changes along with people?

3. What is likely to cause an audience to connect with a character emotionally?

4. How can changes in people be perceived by others?

5. What kind of story does the author use as an example of how a story can suggest characters?

(see the answer key)

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