Flash Fiction: The Plot (What I Know) Quiz 1

1. What is considered as the most significant element of a story for it presents the series of events and characters’ actions in the story?

• A. plot

• B. setting

• C. point of view

• D. conflict

2. What is also referred to as a short-short story?

• A. fable

• B. novel

• C. flash fiction

• D. parable

3. Which of the following refers to the time and place the story takes place?

• A. conflict

• B. plot

• C. climax

• D. setting

4. What do you call a short story with less than 1000 words?

• A. novel

• B. proverbs

• C. flash fiction

• D. parables

5. What emotion is felt with the loss of a loved one?

• A. gaiety

• B. melancholy

• C. elation

• D. pique

6. What does the word melancholy mean?

• A. reverence

• B. stillness

• C. shyness

• D. sadness

7. What does the phrase ‘mask one’s sorrow’ mean?

• A. Pretend to be sad.

• B. Paint his sorrow.

• C. Pretend to be happy.

• D. Wear a mask.

8. What does etched in his heart mean?

• A. to be written in his heart

• B. to be seen in his heart

• C. to be always remembered

• D. to be always heard

9. What term is also used to refer to the plot structure?

• A. narrative arc

• B. narrative ark

• C. plot arc

• D. narrative structure

10. What plot structure component is also known as an inciting incident?

• A. rising action

• B. falling action

• C. climax

• D. exposition