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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will the writer have with more important characters and changes?
(a) More time to explain the transformation.
(b) Less of a need to explain the transformation.
(c) More of a need to explain the transformation.
(d) Less time to explain the transformation.

2. What is it that changes the control a writer has when they write words down?
(a) The fact that a writer can see the words.
(b) The fact that a writer speaks without thinking.
(c) The fact that a writer cannot hear the words.
(d) The fact that a writer writes without thinking.

3. What type of relationships can contribute to a character's attitude?
(a) Present.
(b) Future.
(c) Past, present, or future.
(d) Past.

4. According to the author in Chapter 10, what is comedy almost always about?
(a) Accidents.
(b) Betrayal.
(c) Pain.
(d) Vengeance.

5. How much impact does sound have on the types of voices the author is discussing in Chapter 13?
(a) It has an average impact on it.
(b) It has no impact on it.
(c) It is only a small part of it.
(d) It is a major part of it.

6. In a comedy, what are the comedic interjections grounded in?
(a) Truth.
(b) Actions.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Fiction.

7. Which type of narrative is most often used when writing from a Presentation perspective?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) First person or third person.
(d) First person or second person.

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

9. In Chapter 11, what does the author state makes a character believable?
(a) The allusion to truth.
(b) The absence of truth.
(c) The illusion of truth.
(d) The portrayal of truth.

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

11. Which incidents in the story must the narrator be present for in order to make a first person narrative effective?
(a) The major and the minor incidents.
(b) Neither the major nor the minor incidents.
(c) The major incidents.
(d) The minor incidents.

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

13. Which one of the following is not an example used by the author when listing the different voices people use?
(a) A voice used with parents.
(b) A telephone voice.
(c) A voice used with children.
(d) An internal voice.

14. What is an omniscient narrator?
(a) One that observes and understands the narrative, but does not have to comment on it.
(b) One that comments on the narrative without observing or understanding it.
(c) One that observes, understands, and comments on the narrative.
(d) One that observes and comments on the narrative, but does not have to understand it.

15. What do third person narratives transcend?
(a) Understanding, but not awareness.
(b) Awareness and understanding.
(c) Awareness, but not understanding.
(d) Neither awareness nor understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the author's opinion, what must a transformation be?

2. What are the three ways a writer should penetrate the mind or experience of the viewpoint narrator?

3. What is a viewpoint narrator?

4. Based on the author's quote at the end of Chapter 16, when is a first person narrative not worth doing?

5. Which tenses are the most commonly used?

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