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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 and 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is milieu?
(a) The mental, cultural, or social context.
(b) The physical, historical, or social context.
(c) The physical, cultural, or social context.
(d) The mental, historical, or social context.

2. 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 possible to put them together, but not interesting.
(c) It is both possible and interesting to put them together.
(d) It is neither possible nor interesting to put them together.

3. How will the story itself suggest characters?
(a) According to the ending of a story.
(b) According to what needs to happen and how it needs to take place.
(c) According to what needs to happen, but not how it needs to take place.
(d) According to the beginning of a story.

4. What is part of the reader's experience of the milieu?
(a) The normalcy and predictability of the characters.
(b) The normalcy and unpredictability of the characters.
(c) The strangeness and unfamiliarity of the characters.
(d) The strangeness and familiarity of the characters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many basic types of characters are there?

3. How does the author describe writing based on an issue?

4. How many of the basic elements of a narrative does milieu incorporate?

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

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