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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Idea into Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Knight, what have many writers never been taught?
(a) How to write.
(b) Why they write.
(c) How to read.
(d) What genre they should write.

2. What was Tolstoy able to do remarkably well?
(a) Create characters.
(b) Create names.
(c) Create setting.
(d) Create plot.

3. Which of the following can be used as inspiration?
(a) Television, books, and movies.
(b) All of these.
(c) Conversations.
(d) Dreams and journals.

4. Who wrote a story about a potentate whose wife died?
(a) Kafka.
(b) Wells.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Ellis.

5. If Knight were able to teach writing effectively, what might it destroy?
(a) Cognitive ability.
(b) Creativity.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following dialogues have been known to spark an idea for a story?

2. Which of the following matches the definition Knight has given for tension?

3. Which of the following does Knight say is not a story?

4. In what type of courses does the author take part ?

5. What is a story comprised of?

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