The Art of Dramatic Writing Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Lajos Egri
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Art of Dramatic Writing Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Lajos Egri
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. When was "Tobacco Road" first performed?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1937.

2. Who is the pivotal character in "The Cherry Orchard"?
(a) Mme. Ranevsky.
(b) Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev.
(c) Anya.
(d) Varya.

3. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Accomplishment.
(c) Arete.
(d) Virtue.

4. The author asserts that one key factor in obtaining conflict is what?
(a) Love.
(b) Hate.
(c) Growth.
(d) Antagonist.

5. What refers to a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization?
(a) Ultimate drama.
(b) Over dramatization.
(c) Melodrama.
(d) Megadrama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?

2. What movement arose in early 20th century German theater of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights?

3. According to the author, a character must represent the influence his _____ has had on him.

4. Whom does Oedipus marry?

5. To examine how gradually a person moves from one pole to the other, the author cites from one of _____ works that studies the peaceful death of a perfectly healthy old man.

(see the answer key)

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