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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Controlling A Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the fourth stage of the developing writer?
(a) Writer corrects weaknesses.
(b) Writer is discouraged.
(c) Writer learns from professionals.
(d) Writer becomes enthusiastic.

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

3. What must the solution to a story evoke?
(a) A sense of conclusion.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Clarity.
(d) An impresson.

4. When one sleeps, what can provide an answer to a story?
(a) Unconscious.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Conscience.
(d) Subconscious.

5. Which of the following pronouns refers to the narrator when a story is written in the first person point of view?
(a) He.
(b) You.
(c) We.
(d) I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Knight suggest the writer ask about 'why'?

2. What is the job of the conscious mind?

3. What can a writer use to help him or her flesh out a character or situation?

4. What must a writer resist the impulse to do in creating characters, according to Knight?

5. What is a story comprised of?

(see the answer key)

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