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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, Finishing A Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tolstoy able to do remarkably well?
(a) Create plot.
(b) Create setting.
(c) Create names.
(d) Create characters.

2. Which of the following does Knight specifically say writers should avoid using too many times?
(a) He said.
(b) He pointed out.
(c) He protested.
(d) He muttered.

3. What is consonance?
(a) Repetition of vowel sounds.
(b) Repetition of similar words.
(c) Prose.
(d) Repetition of final consonant sounds.

4. Which of the following does Knight suggest about rhyme, alliteration, and consonance?
(a) They are necessary despite his disdain for them.
(b) They are prose that are almost too poetic.
(c) They are appropriate in creating clarity and fluency.
(d) They are poetry that is prose-like.

5. Which of the following does background not refer to?
(a) Climate.
(b) Architecture
(c) Dialogue.
(d) Culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through which viewpoint does the writer avoid entering the mind of any character?

2. Knight gives an example that sometimes a new writer relies on what part of a character to create interest?

3. What should emerge once a story evolves, according to Knight?

4. What can a writer observe to create empathy?

5. What is the job of the conscious mind?

(see the answer key)

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