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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13, 14 and 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a key contributor to a character's attitude?
(a) The past.
(b) The past, present, and future.
(c) The present.
(d) The future.

2. What should the motives reveal when making a character more believable?
(a) Flaws.
(b) Events.
(c) Strengths.
(d) Character.

3. What should the writer's own experiences have in order to be used as fictional inspiration?
(a) Theoretical, spiritual, or experiential connection with a character.
(b) Emotional, theoretical, or experiential connection with a character.
(c) Emotional, spiritual, or experiential connection with a character.
(d) Emotional, theoretical, or spiritual connection with a character.

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

5. What is it that changes the control a writer has when they write words down?
(a) The fact that a writer cannot hear the words.
(b) The fact that a writer writes without thinking.
(c) The fact that a writer can see the words.
(d) The fact that a writer speaks without thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of pain and suffering for a character causes the reader's emotional investment to expand?

2. What is a Representation perspective?

3. In defining a fictional character, what causes people to behave differently?

4. Which Irish novelist does the author refer to when describing characters that change from situations beyond their control?

5. What technique can help avoid cliché?

(see the answer key)

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