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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Aristotle define "Recognition"?
(a) A change from ignorance to knowledge.
(b) A deep knowing.
(c) An understanding of something.
(d) A sudden realization that one is familiar with something.

2. If the story is performed, why, according to Aristotle, should actors act with appropriate gestures to demonstrate their emotions and thoughts as the story progresses?
(a) Aristotle says that gestures compensate for a bad story.
(b) Aristotle says that spectators will not be able to infer these simply from the dialog alone.
(c) Gestures are more important than dialogue.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

3. Aristotle says that refined art excludes what?
(a) Words with more than one meaning.
(b) Metaphors.
(c) Analogies.
(d) Unsuitable subject matter.

4. How does Aristotle characterize tragedies with happy endings?
(a) He calls them great tragedies.
(b) He says they are Roman poetry.
(c) He says they are Greek poetry.
(d) He calls them comedies.

5. In art, what does Aristotle believe to be the object?
(a) Usually an animal.
(b) Something solid.
(c) What the art imitates.
(d) Usually a person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristotle explains that the poet can err through lacking the artistic capacity to do what?

2. According to Aristotle, how should the plot of a well-written tragedy be structured?

3. What does Aristotle say that a well-crafted tragedy has?

4. Why does Aristotle believe that a failed action by a character that is unaware is more effective than a failed action by a character that is aware?

5. What does Aristotle say occurs at the beginning of a tragic story?

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