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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 13, what is the writer's responsibility?
(a) To say things in an evocative, yet not necessarily clear way.
(b) To say things in a clear and evocative way.
(c) To say things in a clear, yet not necessarily evocative way.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

3. Which one of the following is an example listed in Chapter 12 of a transformation causing consequence that is beyond a character's control?
(a) Lack of intelligence.
(b) Animalistic nature.
(c) Arrogance.
(d) Gullibility.

4. When is telling a story valuable to a narrative?
(a) Only when it explains a past action.
(b) Only when it advances present action.
(c) Only when it advances future action.
(d) Only when it explains a present or future action.

5. What is an omniscient narrator?
(a) One that observes and understands the narrative, but does not have to comment on it.
(b) One that observes and comments on the narrative, but does not have to understand it.
(c) One that comments on the narrative without observing or understanding it.
(d) One that observes, understands, and comments on the narrative.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a flashback affect the present narrative?

2. What can happen when an abnormal tense is chosen by a writer?

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

4. What are the other words used by the author to describe random transformations in characters?

5. How does the author describe the world created in a first person narrative in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "controlled disbelief"?

2. In Chapter 18, how does the author describe the potential of a writer in finding characters?

3. What are some of the consequences that are beyond a character's control and provoke a transformation?

4. What are the most common tenses used in narration and how does the author describe the risks involved with using different ones?

5. What can contribute to a powerful sense of attitude for a character?

6. What are the three levels in which a writer can penetrate the mind or experience of a viewpoint character?

7. What is the difference between an omniscient narrator and a viewpoint narrator?

8. What are some of the different voices a person uses based on the situation?

9. What creates believable characters, according to the author in, "The Serious Character: Make Us Believe"?

10. What are some of the ways a writer can develop a story around characters that do not change?

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