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

2. What must a writer define in creative writing?
(a) Style and tone, but not point of view.
(b) Style and point of view, but not tone.
(c) Style, tone, and point of view.
(d) Tone and point of view, but not style.

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

4. What does the author think about characters from unrelated ideas?
(a) It would be interesting, but it is not possible to put them together.
(b) It is both possible and interesting to put them together.
(c) It is neither possible nor interesting to put them together.
(d) It is possible to put them together, but not interesting.

5. Which one of the following is not an example of how to vary the names of characters to distinguish them for the reader?
(a) Length.
(b) Ending letters.
(c) Initials.
(d) Number of syllables.

Short Answer Questions

1. How will the story itself suggest characters?

2. What is one of the problems with writing based on an issue?

3. What type of reputation can a character have?

4. What kind of story does the author use as an example of how a story can suggest characters?

5. What word is used to describe the life ideally given to fictional characters?

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