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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term used to describe the opposite of a satisfying resolution by Knight?
(a) Fade-in.
(b) Fade-out.
(c) Blank.
(d) Negative.

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

3. The setting must be limited to _________.
(a) A room.
(b) A locale.
(c) A city.
(d) Setting is not limited.

4. What is a consequence of not following an editor's advice?
(a) Getting published in the wrong genre.
(b) Publishing a bad story.
(c) Not finding a good market for publication.
(d) Not being published.

5. After writing a book, how long does Knight suggest that the writer should step away from it?
(a) A couple weeks.
(b) A few days.
(c) A few months.
(d) A year.

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

7. What types of names should characters have?
(a) Ordinary names.
(b) Believable names.
(c) Strange names.
(d) Nicknames in addition to believable names.

8. What is described as not allowing a story to be bogged down by overly complex sentences?
(a) Word placement.
(b) Variety.
(c) Fluency.
(d) Diction.

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

10. Knight suggests that the most important element of a story is the ___________.
(a) Fluency.
(b) Diction.
(c) Idea.
(d) Writing style.

11. Through which viewpoint can the writer enter only one character's mind?
(a) Second person.
(b) Omniscient.
(c) First person omniscient.
(d) Limited omniscient.

12. What must a writer resist the impulse to do in creating characters, according to Knight?
(a) Creating characters without motivation.
(b) Creating settings that are too complicated.
(c) Creating characters that are simply extensions of the author.
(d) Creating stereotypical characters.

13. Which of the following is a reason Knight gives for an author not finishing a story?
(a) He does not think he can succeed.
(b) He does not know enough about his characters.
(c) He does not know a common theme throughout the story.
(d) He does not think of an appropriate title.

14. According to Knight, which point of view is the most difficult for a writer to cope with?
(a) Detached.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

15. If a writer has an idea but the phrasing is escaping him, what next course of action does Knight suggest should be next?
(a) Stop and take a break.
(b) Consult a thesaurus or rhyming dictionary.
(c) Continue and come back to this part later.
(d) Skip this part entirely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Knight describe as having emotional sensitivity?

2. What does Knight describe as being irrelevant and confusing for both the reader and writer?

3. How does a writer try to evoke emotions from a reader?

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

5. To sell his story, of what must a writer be aware?

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