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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 should emerge once a story evolves, according to Knight?
(a) Setting.
(b) Theme.
(c) Plot.
(d) Tension.

2. What must the solution to a story evoke?
(a) A sense of conclusion.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Clarity.
(d) An impresson.

3. What is alliteration?
(a) Repetition of juxtaposing terms.
(b) Repetition of consonant sounds.
(c) Repetition of similar meaning words.
(d) Repetition of vowel sounds.

4. What are the materials in a story?
(a) Plot and development.
(b) Characters and setting.
(c) Characters and tension.
(d) Drive and motivation.

5. In the writer's mind, what is the hero usually like?
(a) Angry and hostile.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Slow developing.
(d) Flawed intensely.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which pronoun refers to the narrator in the third person point of view?

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

4. When a writer first creates a character, how do they start?

5. Which of the following pronouns refers to the narrator when a story is written in the first person point of view?

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