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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following characteristics does Knight associate with learning to feel?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Respect.
(d) Tolerance.

2. What does Knight describe as being the most successful type of writer?
(a) One who knows everything inherently.
(b) One who has never set foot in a classroom.
(c) One who has spent a lot of time in the classroom.
(d) One who has lived outside the classroom.

3. What was Knight unable to do as a teenager?
(a) Create conflict.
(b) Create titles.
(c) Finish stories.
(d) Create settings.

4. What was Tolstoy known for having?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Forgetfulness.
(d) Empathy.

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

6. In the writer's mind, what is the hero usually like?
(a) Angry and hostile.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Slow developing.
(d) Flawed intensely.

7. According to Knight, what does fiction require to be believable?
(a) Extreme falsehoods.
(b) Realistic setting.
(c) A measure of truth.
(d) Small details.

8. The writer refers to the unconscious mind as ____________.
(a) Franklin.
(b) Fancy.
(c) Fred.
(d) Frieda.

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

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

11. What is the second stage of a developing writer?
(a) Story becomes famous.
(b) Story becomes insignificant.
(c) Story becomes trivial.
(d) Story becomes a plot.

12. What can a writer observe to create empathy?
(a) People.
(b) Television.
(c) Blogs.
(d) Animals.

13. Which of the following conclusions did Knight arrive at?
(a) It is possible to teach somebody how to read.
(b) It is not possible to teach somebody how to write.
(c) It is possible to teach somebody how to write.
(d) It is not possible to teach somebody how to write in the correct genre.

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

15. What does the unconscious mind spawn?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Faith.
(c) Fear.
(d) Stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a story comprised of?

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

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

4. Which of the following can be used as inspiration?

5. What is the third stage of the developing writer?

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