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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some readers interpret a change in a character that was not written to change?
(a) The reader did not understand the character when reading about it.
(b) The reader did not understand the plot.
(c) The author did not understand the reader.
(d) The author did not understand the character when writing it.

2. What is the benefit of an omniscient narrator?
(a) It can reveal more character in less time.
(b) It can provide a better understanding of the events for a reader.
(c) It can reveal more character in a way that is clearer.
(d) It can provide a better understanding of the reasons behind the events for the reader.

3. What difficulty exists when writing a first person narrative?
(a) The closeness in space.
(b) The distance in space.
(c) The closeness in time.
(d) The distance in time.

4. Which tenses are the most commonly used?
(a) Present or future tense.
(b) Past or future tense.
(c) Present or past tense.
(d) Present, past, or future tense.

5. How much fiction uses random transformation?
(a) Some.
(b) All.
(c) Most.
(d) None.

6. What is one of fiction's most important purposes?
(a) To make the reader feel less sorrow.
(b) To make the reader feel less uncomfortable.
(c) To make the reader feel more sorrow.
(d) To make the reader feel more uncomfortable.

7. What should the motives reveal when making a character more believable?
(a) Character.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Strengths.
(d) Events.

8. According to the author in the beginning of Chapter 12, what changes along with people?
(a) Their attitude.
(b) Their behavior.
(c) Their situation.
(d) Their goals.

9. What distinguishes a first person narrative from other forms?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) It is slightly less intimate.
(c) It is much more intimate.
(d) It is slightly more intimate.

10. What can a third person narrative suffer from?
(a) A distance in time.
(b) A distance in space.
(c) A closeness in space.
(d) A closeness in time.

11. What are the three ways a writer should penetrate the mind or experience of the viewpoint narrator?
(a) Random, brief, and detailed.
(b) Cinematic, clear, and blurred.
(c) Cinematic, light, and deep.
(d) Random, shallow, and extensive.

12. How can a character appear to change while remaining unchanged?
(a) The author does not develop the character effectively.
(b) They reveal the truth about who they were all along.
(c) They only change in front of certain characters.
(d) The reader is misinterpreting the character.

13. How much freedom do characters have to change in comedy?
(a) Only the central character can change in comedy.
(b) Less.
(c) More.
(d) None.

14. What reason does a character have for going through a random transformation?
(a) An unexplained reason.
(b) An illogical reason.
(c) A logical reason.
(d) No reason.

15. In comedy, how should a transformation be presented?
(a) In an unjustified way.
(b) In a justified way.
(c) Close to the end of the story.
(d) In the middle of the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can changes in people be perceived by others?

2. Besides an individually defined character, what does the narrator of a first person story need?

3. What does the term, "downplaying", refer to in comedy?

4. What is the number of characters available to a writer, according to the author in Chapter 18?

5. What does "controlled disbelief" refer to?

(see the answer keys)

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