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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of influences might cause a character to change?
(a) The influence of circumstances, but not characters.
(b) The influence of other characters, but not circumstances.
(c) The influence of neither other characters nor circumstances.
(d) The influence of other characters or circumstances.

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

5. What types of details are necessary to make a character believable?
(a) Irrelevant and inappropriate.
(b) Relevant and appropriate.
(c) Irrelevant, but appropriate.
(d) Relevant, but inappropriate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the writer avoid when defining the voice of a narrator?

2. What are the other words used by the author to describe random transformations in characters?

3. What distinguishes a first person narrative from other forms?

4. Which one of the following is not an example used by the author when listing the different voices people use?

5. What difficulty exists when writing a first person narrative?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can a presentation perspective and a representation perspective be successfully applied?

2. How do "showing" and "telling" affect the story?

3. How can a random transformation be written if it seems to occur for no reason?

4. What are some of the consequences that are beyond a character's control and provoke a transformation?

5. What are some of the different voices a person uses based on the situation?

6. What is "controlled disbelief"?

7. What are the advantages to using an omniscient or limited narration?

8. What are some of the techniques for interjecting humor?

9. What are the three levels in which a writer can penetrate the mind or experience of a viewpoint character?

10. What is comedy usually the result of, and what is humor based on?

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