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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is likely to cause an audience to connect with a character emotionally?
(a) Appealing characteristics and/or thoughts.
(b) Appealing characteristics and/or values.
(c) Unexplained characteristics and/or thoughts.
(d) Unexplained characteristics and/or values.

2. What kind of characterization is needed in a narrative that features the characters as the primary focus?
(a) Detailed and complex.
(b) Less detailed and simple.
(c) Detailed, but simple.
(d) Less detailed, but complex.

3. Which one of the following is not an example of a character trait that will gain an emotional connection with the reader?
(a) Positive attitude.
(b) Ambiguity.
(c) Negativity.
(d) Cleverness.

4. What is a narrative that is focused on an event trying to make sense of?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Intentions.
(d) Milieu.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to avoid being boring, what does a character have to be?

2. When an idea is the primary focus, what is the role of the characters?

3. Which one of the following is not an example the author uses as a way to add emotional intensity to a character?

4. How is the event described?

5. According to the author, what is the purpose of fiction?

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