Fiction Short Story Literature Quiz 19 (20 MCQs)

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1. When and where a story takes place is the ..... of a story.

Correct Answer: C) Setting.

2. Chester Brown's "Louis Riel" that centers on a fictionalized violent rebellion in the 19th century is a .....

Correct Answer: C) Graphic novel.

3. BB:What genre can Barn Burning be categorized as?

Correct Answer: A) Coming of age.

4. The final section of a linear plot map is called .....

Correct Answer: D) Resolution.

5. The problem or struggle in a story is known as the ..... . *

Correct Answer: C) Conflict.

6. Which is NOT a common characteristic of flash fiction?

Correct Answer: C) Uses speech bubbles.

7. A type of nonfiction that gives the history of a person's life written or told by the person himself or herself.

Correct Answer: C) Autobiography.

8. An internal conflict is a struggle within a character's .....

Correct Answer: B) Mind.

9. Which of the following is the best description of the plot in a fiction story?

Correct Answer: C) The series of made-up events.

10. The ..... is the turning point in the story, or the most exciting part of the story.

Correct Answer: A) Climax.

11. What is the problem of the story called?

Correct Answer: D) Conflict.

12. In literature, the narrator is ..... . *

Correct Answer: C) The voice that tells the story.

13. The ..... may be to entertain, explain or inform, to express an opinion, or to persuade readers to do or believe something.

Correct Answer: A) Author's purpose.

14. The main problem that occurs in a story is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Conflict.

15. The main character in a story

Correct Answer: B) Protagonist.

16. The beginning of the complications leading to the intensification of the problem or the conflict (climax)

Correct Answer: B) Rising Action.

17. When a character struggles with an outside force? (There are three types)

Correct Answer: B) External conflict.

18. How do flash fictions commonly end the story?

Correct Answer: A) The story ends with a twist.

19. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story is call .....

Correct Answer: C) Point of view.

20. Art Spiegelmen's "In the Shadow of No Tower:9/11" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Graphic novel.