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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 do the most engaging characters reveal about themselves?
(a) Fearlessness.
(b) Unknown flaws.
(c) A heroic side.
(d) Unknown fears.

2. What is one of the problems with writing based on an issue?
(a) The characters embody neither attitudes nor perspectives.
(b) The characters tend to embody attitudes with no perspectives.
(c) The characters tend to embody attitudes or perspectives.
(d) The characters tend to embody perspectives with no attitudes.

3. Which of the following is not an example of a minor character's function?
(a) To offer information.
(b) To define the main theme.
(c) To create suspense.
(d) To act as a love interest.

4. How much fiction uses random transformation?
(a) None.
(b) Some.
(c) Most.
(d) All.

5. Besides emotional, what type of attention from the reader is the goal of Chapter 7?
(a) Analytical.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Inadvertent.
(d) Subconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Ayn Rand book, mentioned in Chapter 12, features sympathetic characters that are not transformed, but unmasked?

2. How does a flashback affect the present narrative?

3. What type of influences might cause a character to change?

4. In a comedy, what are the comedic interjections grounded in?

5. What are the other words used by the author to describe random transformations in characters?

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