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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What must accompany self-sacrifice in an engaging character?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Reason.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Sympathy.

3. How does the author define an idea?
(a) What the reader is not intended to understand and/or learn.
(b) What the reader is intended to learn, but not necessarily understand.
(c) What the reader is intended to understand and/or learn.
(d) What the reader is intended to understand, but not necessarily learn.

4. With what does the author intend to help writers?
(a) Rating their work.
(b) Writing shorter novels.
(c) Writing longer novels.
(d) Fulfilling their responsibilities.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In general, how do people write in comparison to the way they speak?

2. What is the author's theory about fiction in Chapter 5?

3. Besides context, what else can a name provide for a character?

4. How many of the basic elements of a narrative does milieu incorporate?

5. What can cause a reader to become more engaged with a character?

(see the answer key)

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