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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Dramatis Personae Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jean accompany the Count?
(a) The hospital.
(b) The hunt.
(c) The station.
(d) The mountain.

2. In Scene 1, what does Julie choose to believe about the world in which she lives?
(a) What she wants to see.
(b) What her father wants her to see.
(c) What her peers want her to see.
(d) What the servants want her to see.

3. Strindberg's stress on scenery is meant to promote ______.
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Energy conservation.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Political parties.

4. Jean observes that Miss Julie is acting _____.
(a) Distressed.
(b) Sour.
(c) Calm.
(d) Wild.

5. What was a reflection of society at the time, according to Strindberg?
(a) A need to take pleasure from someone else's pain.
(b) A need to compensate for one's privilege.
(c) A need to feel bad for the less fortunate.
(d) A need to humiliate those in power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jean come back into the kitchen wearing?

2. Who does the Count leave Julie with as the play opens?

3. Why does Strindberg discuss his characters in the preface?

4. For Strindberg, what is/are a real and indelible part of everyday life?

5. Strindberg's style is an attempt to _____ classic playwrighting.

(see the answer key)

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