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

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

3. How does the author describe the act of creative writing in the Introduction?
(a) As a collaborative act.
(b) As a solitary act.
(c) As a limited act.
(d) As an unlimited act.

4. Why should sources of inspiration be altered?
(a) To make them more mysterious.
(b) To make them more effective.
(c) To make them more familiar.
(d) To make them more unrealistic

5. According to the author, where do characters come from?
(a) The author's mind.
(b) They must be purely fictional.
(c) They must be based on real life people.
(d) Everywhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will help a writer to maintain consistency?

2. What do the two questions the author poses at the end of Chapter 2 add to a novel?

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

4. What does the contract between an author and a reader state?

5. In a story where character is the primary focus, how many characters need to be fully developed?

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