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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Idea into Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote a story about a potentate whose wife died?
(a) Wells.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Kafka.
(d) Ellis.

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

3. What journey does Knight expect writers to take?
(a) Fixated to free.
(b) Mediocre to grand.
(c) Amateur to professonal.
(d) Uncreative to dramatically creative.

4. Which of the following does Knight not say a writer must learn to do when writing a story?
(a) Hear.
(b) Accept.
(c) See.
(d) Remember.

5. What does the unconscious mind require?
(a) Stories.
(b) Bias.
(c) Information.
(d) Characters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the writer's mind, what is the hero usually like?

3. What is the third stage of the developing writer?

4. What does Knight describe as being a writer's job?

5. What is the second stage of a developing writer?

(see the answer key)

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