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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. How is the event described?
(a) What happens outside of the narrative and why.
(b) What happens in the narrative and why.
(c) What happens outside of the narrative and when.
(d) What happens in the narrative and when.

2. In a story where character is the primary focus, how many characters need to be fully developed?
(a) Very few of them.
(b) At least half of them.
(c) None of them.
(d) Not all of them.

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

4. Which one of the following is not a powerful resource for finding characters listed by the author?
(a) The writer's unrelated memories.
(b) The writer's previous works.
(c) The writer's self.
(d) The writer's feelings.

5. What does the contract between an author and a reader state?
(a) That the narrative will have a happy ending.
(b) That the narrative will reach a conclusion.
(c) That the narrative will introduce more characters.
(d) That the narrative will introduce less characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the writer's own experiences have in order to be used as fictional inspiration?

2. What will a writer discover when they take their eyes off of the main character?

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

4. What is milieu?

5. In the subtitle of "Characters and Viewpoint", what are the three objectives that the author promises to deliver?

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