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

2. What does Knight describe as being one sentence leading to another?
(a) Diction.
(b) Consecutiveness.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Fluency.

3. What is the first stage of a developing writer?
(a) The writer is writing for an audience.
(b) The writer is writing for himself.
(c) The writer is writing for money.
(d) The writer is writing for nobody.

4. For thousands of years, what was the only acceptable viewpoint?
(a) Second.
(b) First.
(c) Detached.
(d) Third.

5. What must a writer resist the impulse to do in creating characters, according to Knight?
(a) Creating characters that are simply extensions of the author.
(b) Creating characters without motivation.
(c) Creating settings that are too complicated.
(d) Creating stereotypical characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would most help a writer develop their writing?

2. Which of the following can help somebody who needs to learn to hear?

3. What can a writer participate in, in order to learn about empathy?

4. Knight gives an example that sometimes a new writer relies on what part of a character to create interest?

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

(see the answer key)

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