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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. In order to avoid being boring, what does a character have to be?
(a) Unfamiliar and idiosyncratic.
(b) Passive and mysterious.
(c) Familiar and idiosyncratic.
(d) Aggressive and mysterious.

2. What kind of story does the author use as an example of how a story can suggest characters?
(a) Unwilling confinement.
(b) Space adventure.
(c) Murder.
(d) Natural disaster.

3. In the author's opinion, what must a transformation be?
(a) Justified and logical.
(b) Logical.
(c) Complete.
(d) Justified.

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

5. As explained in Chapter 12, which author wrote stories that featured characters that did not change by their own motives?
(a) D. H. Lawrence.
(b) C. S. Forester.
(c) Thomas Hardy.
(d) A A Milne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style of writing is effective in combining the telling of a story with the reason it is being told?

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

3. Which form of language requires more precision?

4. In Chapter 8, how does the author want the reader to be engaged with a character?

5. What type of motives should be included when writing a character that is more believable?

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