The Art of Dramatic Writing Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Lajos Egri
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The Art of Dramatic Writing Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Lajos Egri
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III: Conflict, Chapters 1 -2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Book II, Character, Chapter 2: Environment discusses how a man's environment, health, and what will shape him into what he is?
(a) Determination.
(b) Economic background.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Spirituality.

2. What does Lajos Egri claim is the premise of "Othello"?
(a) "Great love defies even death."
(b) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."
(c) "Jealousy destroys itself and the object of its love."
(d) "Love rewards death."

3. Who translated Ibsen's "The Pillars of Society" to English?
(a) August Strindberg.
(b) William Archer.
(c) Lajos Egri.
(d) Anton Chekhov.

4. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?
(a) Definition.
(b) Plot.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Conflict.

5. What term refers to the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population?
(a) Environment.
(b) Endurance.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Challenges.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.

2. In one line of dialogue, a character will be delighted with their life, and two lines later, disturbingly mad. What kind of conflict is this an example of?

3. When a scene ends the same way it begins, it is ____, and therefore boring because it ignores drama, according to the author.

4. According to the author, characters must do what, for if a character is the same way in the beginning as he is in the end, the play is bad?

5. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?

(see the answer key)

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