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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the advantage of the omniscient viewpoint?
(a) It allows movement between characters.
(b) It is easier for the writer.
(c) It allows the writer to show more personality.
(d) It allows a character to physically describe himself.

3. Which of the following does Knight suggest about rhyme, alliteration, and consonance?
(a) They are prose that are almost too poetic.
(b) They are poetry that is prose-like.
(c) They are necessary despite his disdain for them.
(d) They are appropriate in creating clarity and fluency.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a pleasurable element that Knight describes?

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

3. What type of resolution does Knight suggest a writer needs to create?

4. According to Knight, what is the most important element that the ending offers a reader?

5. What types of names should characters have?

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