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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a lack of conflict in a scene or play?
(a) Boring.
(b) Static.
(c) Peace.
(d) Drama.

2. In Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites, the author states that the antagonist and pivotal character absolutely cannot do what?
(a) Compromise.
(b) Kill each other.
(c) Have a common friend.
(d) Be friends.

3. 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) Megadrama.
(d) Melodrama.

4. According to the author, the opposing force of the antagonist absolutely must be _____.
(a) More than that of the pivotal character.
(b) Equal to the pivotal character.
(c) Less than that of the pivotal character.
(d) Strategically placed.

5. What is needed to make life keep constantly going, according to the author in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?
(a) Faith.
(b) Determination.
(c) Motion.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the man who meets the dog going in the author's scenario in Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites?

2. What term means a striking exhibition of unlikeness?

3. What does Lajos Egri state first and foremost the writer must have of his characters?

4. According to the author, you must present a character as _____.

5. Whom does Oedipus marry?

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