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

2. What technique can help avoid cliché?
(a) Extensive descriptions.
(b) Brief descriptions.
(c) Exaggeration.
(d) Realism.

3. How often are sources of inspiration altered?
(a) Very often.
(b) Never.
(c) Sometimes.
(d) Hardly at all.

4. What type of reputation can a character have?
(a) Deserved or not deserved.
(b) One that is not deserved.
(c) One that is deserved.
(d) A character should not have a reputation.

5. How well do readers want to know characters in a book?
(a) As well as they know people in a movie.
(b) Better than they know people in life.
(c) As well as they know people in life.
(d) Better than they know characters in a movie.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why should sources of inspiration be altered?

2. Which of the following is not an example of a minor character's function?

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

4. According to the author, where do characters come from?

5. What will many experienced authors claim about their characters?

(see the answer key)

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