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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. In order to avoid being boring, what does a character have to be?
(a) Aggressive and mysterious.
(b) Passive and mysterious.
(c) Unfamiliar and idiosyncratic.
(d) Familiar and idiosyncratic.

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

3. What does the author hope to give writers who read the book?
(a) A specific set of instructions.
(b) A secret formula.
(c) A popular method.
(d) A set of tools.

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

5. As what is the idea of hierarchy defined?
(a) A guideline to the role a character plays in the plot.
(b) A guideline to the amount of narrative each character receives.
(c) A guideline to how many characters to include in a narrative.
(d) A guideline to which characters to introduce first in a narrative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the writer's own experiences have in order to be used as fictional inspiration?

2. Which of the following is not an example of a broad stroke definition?

3. What is a narrative that is focused on an event trying to make sense of?

4. Which one of the following is not a powerful resource for finding characters listed by the author?

5. What kind of narrative should a storyteller use?

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