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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How should exaggeration be used when writing a comedy?
(a) Within certain boundaries.
(b) Exaggeration should not be used in a comedy.
(c) With extreme caution.
(d) With no boundaries.

2. What does the term, "take", describe in a comedy?
(a) When a narrator points out the inaccuracies of something.
(b) When a character points out the irony of something.
(c) When a character points out the absurdity of something.
(d) When a narrator points out the seriousness of something.

3. How much impact does sound have on the types of voices the author is discussing in Chapter 13?
(a) It has an average impact on it.
(b) It is only a small part of it.
(c) It is a major part of it.
(d) It has no impact on it.

4. What is the result of a narrative that feels like an act of memory?
(a) An increased intimacy.
(b) A lack of intimacy.
(c) A lack of repetition.
(d) An increase in repetition.

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

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

7. What type of influences might cause a character to change?
(a) The influence of neither other characters nor circumstances.
(b) The influence of circumstances, but not characters.
(c) The influence of other characters, but not circumstances.
(d) The influence of other characters or circumstances.

8. In the author's opinion, what must a transformation be?
(a) Justified.
(b) Complete.
(c) Logical.
(d) Justified and logical.

9. What is the benefit of an omniscient narrator?
(a) It can provide a better understanding of the events for a reader.
(b) It can reveal more character in less time.
(c) It can reveal more character in a way that is clearer.
(d) It can provide a better understanding of the reasons behind the events for the reader.

10. In a comedy, what are the comedic interjections grounded in?
(a) Actions.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Truth.

11. How do the motives of a believable character affect the direction of the story?
(a) They abandon the direction of the story.
(b) They keep the direction of the story on track.
(c) They do not affect the direction of the story.
(d) They change the direction of the story.

12. What will the writer have with more important characters and changes?
(a) Less of a need to explain the transformation.
(b) More time to explain the transformation.
(c) More of a need to explain the transformation.
(d) Less time to explain the transformation.

13. What are the other words used by the author to describe random transformations in characters?
(a) Absurd and uncaused.
(b) Deliberate and uncaused.
(c) Deliberate and caused.
(d) Absurd and caused.

14. What type of speech patterns do people use when they are talking into a recorder?
(a) A higher voice than normal.
(b) Their dictation dialect.
(c) Their normal speaking voice.
(d) A lower voice than normal.

15. How does the author describe the world created in a first person narrative in Chapter 16?
(a) Strange and twisted.
(b) Familiar and logical.
(c) Strange in a reasonable way.
(d) Strange in an unreasonable way.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to help make a character more believable, how should the details be presented?

2. In comedy, how should a transformation be presented?

3. What is a Presentation perspective?

4. What is a common reaction to a change?

5. According to the author in Chapter 13, what is the writer's responsibility?

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