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

2. What effect does writing down words have as opposed to speaking them?
(a) Writing them down makes the voice more informal.
(b) Writing them down makes them more confusing.
(c) Writing them down makes the voice more formal.
(d) Writing them down makes them less confusing.

3. Which series of novels by Robert Parker are listed as an example of characters that are influenced to change?
(a) Sunny Randall.
(b) Spenser.
(c) Philip Marlowe.
(d) Jesse Stone.

4. In order to help make a character more believable, how should the details be presented?
(a) Pertinently.
(b) Sporadically.
(c) Quickly.
(d) Gradually.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How well do readers want to know characters in a book?

2. How should exaggeration be used when writing a comedy?

3. Which one of the following triggers a negative reaction from readers?

4. Why does a character in a novel pursue a transformation in his/her life?

5. What can happen when an abnormal tense is chosen by a writer?

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