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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: General, Chapters 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has a reigning power in the presence of a written piece of work according to Lajos Egri?
(a) Plot.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Structure.
(d) Character.

2. What term refers to the process of finding two differing bodies, making them the protagonist and antagonist, and making these characters so well defined that you are allowed to put them into a situation in which they are unable to make a compromise?
(a) Dramatic writing.
(b) Conflict escalation.
(c) Orchestration.
(d) Conflict creation.

3. What classical Greek Athenian philosopher was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and was known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Socrates.

4. Who wrote the play "Idiot's Delight"?
(a) Paul Green.
(b) Erskine Caldwell.
(c) John Howard Lawson.
(d) Robert E. Sherwood.

5. When a writer has trouble entering and exiting his characters, the author believes he _____.
(a) Removed from them.
(b) Doesn't know them well enough.
(c) Hasn't developed them.
(d) Threatened by them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the pivotal character in "The Cherry Orchard"?

2. Who suffers from inherited syphilis in the play "Ghosts"?

3. Aristotle was a student of _____.

4. What term is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; a basis of argument. A proposition stated or assumed as leading to a conclusion"?

5. What are defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion?

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