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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Controlling A Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stage of the developing writer will the writer get out of if he or she develops the main character?
(a) Stage 2.
(b) Stage 4.
(c) Stage 1.
(d) Stage 3.

2. Which of the following matches the definition Knight has given for tension?
(a) One plot multiplies into two or three.
(b) Complication of the story.
(c) Introducing a new character or setting.
(d) Setting and character development.

3. What does Knight know he cannot pump into people?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Skill.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Enthusiasm.

4. What does Knight describe as being one sentence leading to another?
(a) Diction.
(b) Consecutiveness.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Fluency.

5. Which of the following pronouns refers to the narrator when a story is written in the first person point of view?
(a) I.
(b) You.
(c) We.
(d) He.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which pronoun would an author use to refer to the second person narrator?

2. What must a writer resist the impulse to do in creating characters, according to Knight?

3. A mass of over-description is referred to as which of the following?

4. Which point of view does Knight believe to provide the most flexibility?

5. What type of knowledge is best suited for creating a character with a believable backdrop?

(see the answer key)

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