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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 difficulty exists when writing a first person narrative?
(a) The closeness in time.
(b) The distance in time.
(c) The closeness in space.
(d) The distance in space.

2. Which one of the following is not a powerful resource for finding characters listed by the author?
(a) The writer's previous works.
(b) The writer's self.
(c) The writer's feelings.
(d) The writer's unrelated memories.

3. How much freedom do characters have to change in comedy?
(a) More.
(b) Only the central character can change in comedy.
(c) None.
(d) Less.

4. What is the author's theory about fiction in Chapter 5?
(a) Order in reality helps us create order in fiction.
(b) Fiction and reality can only coexist without order.
(c) Order in fiction helps us create order in reality.
(d) Fiction and reality cannot coexist without order.

5. In Chapter 11, what does the author state makes a character believable?
(a) The portrayal of truth.
(b) The illusion of truth.
(c) The allusion to truth.
(d) The absence of truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. As explained in Chapter 15, what is the time difference in "showing" and "telling"?

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

3. Which of the following is not an example of a minor character's function?

4. In an event-driven narrative, what is the goal of the characters?

5. What does the term, "downplaying", refer to in comedy?

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