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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the two questions the author poses at the end of Chapter 2 add to a novel?
(a) Practical interest for the background of a character.
(b) Dramatic interest for the background of a character.
(c) Practical interest for the characters and events.
(d) Dramatic interest for the characters and events.

2. What place can writers use as inspiration for their characters?
(a) Memory, but not observation.
(b) Observation, but not memory.
(c) Observation and another person's memory.
(d) Observation and memory.

3. What part of a character's name provides a clear starting point for defining that character's context?
(a) The last name.
(b) The reason they were given the name.
(c) The middle name.
(d) The first name.

4. Why is it necessary for a reader to care about the characters in a narrative?
(a) So they will want to know more about them.
(b) So they will understand them better.
(c) So they will anticipate the events in the book.
(d) So they will sympathize with them more.

5. What is the function of a major character?
(a) To be interesting and believable.
(b) To be interesting, but not necessarily believable.
(c) To be neither interesting nor believable.
(d) To be believable, but not necessarily interesting.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe the act of creative writing in the Introduction?

2. How many different aspects of creative writing are there?

3. How often are sources of inspiration altered?

4. What kind of narrative should a storyteller use?

5. What two things should a writer be open to translating into their characters and stories?

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