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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In order to help make a character more believable, how should the details be presented?
(a) Quickly.
(b) Sporadically.
(c) Gradually.
(d) Pertinently.

2. What will help a writer to maintain consistency?
(a) Keeping a list of character traits and facts.
(b) Not having more than three central characters.
(c) Not having more than four supporting characters.
(d) Keeping a list of character names.

3. How does the author describe writing based on an issue?
(a) A tricky source of characters.
(b) An ambiguous source of characters.
(c) A misleading source of characters.
(d) A distracting source of characters.

4. What is part of the reader's experience of the milieu?
(a) The normalcy and unpredictability of the characters.
(b) The strangeness and familiarity of the characters.
(c) The normalcy and predictability of the characters.
(d) The strangeness and unfamiliarity of the characters.

5. What is the author's theory about fiction in Chapter 5?
(a) Order in fiction helps us create order in reality.
(b) Fiction and reality can only coexist without order.
(c) Fiction and reality cannot coexist without order.
(d) Order in reality helps us create order in fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not an example of a story where an idea is the primary narrative?

2. What is milieu?

3. What does the term, "take", describe in a comedy?

4. What happens if a disproportionate amount of justification is presented in a story?

5. What is the function of a major character?

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