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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Knight describe as being irrelevant and confusing for both the reader and writer?
(a) Describing directions.
(b) Describing dialogue.
(c) Describing motivation.
(d) Describing physical locations.

2. A mass of over-description is referred to as which of the following?
(a) Interrogative lump.
(b) Visual lump.
(c) Exclamatory lump.
(d) Expository lump.

3. If a writer finds too much wrong with a manuscript when reviewing it, what does Knight suggest might have to happen?
(a) The writer spends days on end reviewing it some more.
(b) The writer sells it as is.
(c) The writer seeks professional editing help.
(d) The writer abandons it.

4. Which of the following does Knight suggest for finding good information about publishing requirements?
(a) Literary Market Place.
(b) Literature and Book Market.
(c) Literary Book Market.
(d) Literature Marketing Center.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an example of a revision to a manuscript?

2. What type of word ending does Knight suggest writers avoid using too many of?

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

4. What point in the book is the easiest for a writer to become "stuck"?

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

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