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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 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 added to, exaggerated, or completely changed.
(d) They are exaggerated or completely changed.

2. What two things should a writer be open to translating into their characters and stories?
(a) Impossibility and insight.
(b) Possibility and insight.
(c) Possibility and the unknown.
(d) Impossibility and the unknown.

3. How will the story itself suggest characters?
(a) According to what needs to happen and how it needs to take place.
(b) According to what needs to happen, but not how it needs to take place.
(c) According to the ending of a story.
(d) According to the beginning of a story.

4. What does the author think can also provide ideas for additional characters?
(a) The future of central characters.
(b) The future of supporting characters.
(c) The pasts of central characters.
(d) The pasts of supporting characters.

5. What kinds of situations can make a character more interesting?
(a) Ones that the reader is unaccustomed with.
(b) Ones that the character is unaccustomed with.
(c) Ones that the character and the reader are expecting.
(d) Ones that the character has been in before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should a writer do when adding layers to a stereotyped character?

2. According to the author, what is the purpose of fiction?

3. What does the author hope to give writers who read the book?

4. According to the author, where do characters come from?

5. What is part of the reader's experience of the milieu?

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