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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a person represented in a drama or story?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Heroine.
(c) Character.
(d) Hero.

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

3. According to the author, every sensible invention must have _____.
(a) A purpose.
(b) Marketability.
(c) An owner.
(d) A price.

4. A play, according to the author, will not work without what central figure who drives the action?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Pivotal character.
(d) Hero.

5. What American writer wrote "The root-idea is the beginning of the process"?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) John Howard Lawson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population?

2. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?

3. What does Lajos Egri claim to be the premise of "Romeo and Juliet"?

4. What character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?

5. What is Lajos Egri's terminology for the physiological, psychological, and sociological makeup of a character?

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