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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16, 17 and 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the problems with writing based on an issue?
(a) The characters embody neither attitudes nor perspectives.
(b) The characters tend to embody perspectives with no attitudes.
(c) The characters tend to embody attitudes or perspectives.
(d) The characters tend to embody attitudes with no perspectives.

2. How does the author define an idea?
(a) What the reader is intended to understand and/or learn.
(b) What the reader is intended to learn, but not necessarily understand.
(c) What the reader is not intended to understand and/or learn.
(d) What the reader is intended to understand, but not necessarily learn.

3. What do the two questions the author poses at the end of Chapter 2 add to a novel?
(a) Dramatic interest for the background of a character.
(b) Dramatic interest for the characters and events.
(c) Practical interest for the characters and events.
(d) Practical interest for the background of a character.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different aspects of creative writing are there?

2. Which one of the following is not an example used by the author when listing the different voices people use?

3. What is it that changes the control a writer has when they write words down?

4. What is one of fiction's most important purposes?

5. What Ayn Rand book, mentioned in Chapter 12, features sympathetic characters that are not transformed, but unmasked?

(see the answer key)

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