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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exists to provide justification for unexplained changes?
(a) Flashbacks.
(b) Fiction.
(c) History.
(d) Omens.

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

3. What happens if a disproportionate amount of justification is presented in a story?
(a) The reader will not expect the things that the author will deliver.
(b) The reader will not understand the things that the author will deliver.
(c) The reader will expect things that the author will not deliver.
(d) The reader will not understand why the author has not delivered anything.

4. How can a character effectively have a random transformation?
(a) Only in a world where random change is abnormal.
(b) Only in a world where random change is normal.
(c) Only in a world where no one else changes.
(d) Only in a world where everyone else changes.

5. What style of writing is effective in combining the telling of a story with the reason it is being told?
(a) Mystery writing.
(b) Comic writing.
(c) Adventure writing.
(d) Dramatic writing.

6. Which character in Pygmalion does the author use as an example of a character that changes him or herself?
(a) Freddy.
(b) Higgins.
(c) Clara.
(d) Eliza.

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

8. What makes the techniques for interjecting humor even more effective?
(a) An emotional, logical, or historical reason.
(b) An emotional or historical reason.
(c) A logical or historical reason.
(d) An emotional or logical reason.

9. Which one of the following is an example of a character that remains unchanged?
(a) A character who pretends to change.
(b) A character who wants to change, but cannot.
(c) A character who changes involuntarily.
(d) A character who only changes around specific characters.

10. What is a viewpoint narrator?
(a) One that observes and comments on the narrative from the perspective of the reader.
(b) One that observes and comments on the narrative from the perspective of only the major characters.
(c) One that observes and comments on the narrative from the perspective of a single character.
(d) One that observes and comments on the narrative from the perspective of only the minor characters.

11. Which Irish novelist does the author refer to when describing characters that change from situations beyond their control?
(a) William Carleton.
(b) Jonathan Swift.
(c) Charles Kickham.
(d) James Joyce.

12. How can a character appear to change while remaining unchanged?
(a) They only change in front of certain characters.
(b) The reader is misinterpreting the character.
(c) They reveal the truth about who they were all along.
(d) The author does not develop the character effectively.

13. How much fiction uses random transformation?
(a) None.
(b) All.
(c) Most.
(d) Some.

14. How can changes in people be perceived by others?
(a) They will never understand it.
(b) They might not understand it.
(c) They might not want to understand it.
(d) They will always understand it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which series of novels by Robert Parker are listed as an example of characters that are influenced to change?

2. What is a common reaction to a change?

3. What must happen when a narrator does not describe an event in a first person narration?

4. How much impact does sound have on the types of voices the author is discussing in Chapter 13?

5. Which tenses are the most commonly used?

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