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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a poet presents the poem in the voice of one of the characters, what method does Aristotle say that the poet is using?
(a) The method of recognition.
(b) The method of third person.
(c) The method of first person.
(d) The method of imitation.

2. In poetry, what is the term that Aristotle gives for an action that aims to accomplish a certain goal, but actually accomplishes the opposite?
(a) Irony.
(b) Reversal of Situation.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Failure.

3. Aristotle credits whom with giving a great example of how one can take even a historical event and reduce and organize it into a simple and elegant story?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Homer.

4. Aristotle says that simply doing what well leaves a mediocre piece of art?
(a) Writing a complication and unraveling.
(b) Developing a main character that does not have a close friend.
(c) Infusing irony just at the beginning.
(d) Giving the reader a sense of suspense.

5. A character attempting to save his friend but accidentally killing him instead is an example Aristotle gives for what?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Bad luck.
(c) Reversal of Situation.
(d) Second degree manslaughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third type of recognition as identified by Aristotle?

2. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs without "Recognition" or "Reversal of Situation"?

3. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs with "Recognition" and/or "Reversal of Situation"?

4. In how many ways does Aristotle say the method of imitation can differ?

5. Which of the following is an example that Aristotle provides of a readers' confusion being not the fault of the poet, but more so of the reader's?

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