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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 mental, historical, or social context.
(d) The physical, cultural, or social context.

2. How is the event described?
(a) What happens outside of the narrative and when.
(b) What happens in the narrative and when.
(c) What happens in the narrative and why.
(d) What happens outside of the narrative and why.

3. What word is used to describe the life ideally given to fictional characters?
(a) Vivid.
(b) Colorful.
(c) Eventful.
(d) Interesting.

4. What kinds of situations can make a character more interesting?
(a) Ones that the reader is unaccustomed with.
(b) Ones that the character and the reader are expecting.
(c) Ones that the character has been in before.
(d) Ones that the character is unaccustomed with.

5. In the subtitle of "Characters and Viewpoint", what are the three objectives that the author promises to deliver?
(a) How to invent, construct, and animate characters.
(b) How to invent, label, and portray characters.
(c) How to find, invent, and portray characters.
(d) How to find, invent, and construct characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 1 end?

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

3. Which one of the following is not an example of a story where an idea is the primary narrative?

4. What is the author's theory about fiction in Chapter 5?

5. What determines the amount of characterization in an event?

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