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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. What can cause a reader to become more engaged with a character?
(a) Making what is happening to a character more important to all other characters.
(b) Making what is happening to a character more important to that character.
(c) Making what is happening to a character more important to another character.
(d) Making what is happening to a character more important to only the minor characters.

2. What must a storyteller do when creating characters or events?
(a) Broaden the theme.
(b) Understand and define the implications of the plot.
(c) Broaden the plot.
(d) Understand and define the theme.

3. What does the author think about characters from unrelated ideas?
(a) It is neither possible nor interesting to put them together.
(b) It is both possible and interesting to put them together.
(c) It would be interesting, but it is not possible to put them together.
(d) It is possible to put them together, but not interesting.

4. In a comedy, what are the comedic interjections grounded in?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Actions.
(d) Truth.

5. What place can writers use as inspiration for their characters?
(a) Memory, but not observation.
(b) Observation, but not memory.
(c) Observation and another person's memory.
(d) Observation and memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not a powerful resource for finding characters listed by the author?

2. With what does the author intend to help writers?

3. Which one of the following is not an example the author uses as a way to add emotional intensity to a character?

4. How does Chapter 1 end?

5. Which perspective is placed on the humor by a writer in a comedy?

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