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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle gives the following as an example of what: Homer says that Odysseus accomplished a certain number of deeds?
(a) His imagination.
(b) A metaphor.
(c) Deception.
(d) Exaggeration.

2. What is one of the requirements Aristotle mentions for a good tragic plot?
(a) A good plot must be tragic in the beginning, middle, and end.
(b) A good plot must be mysterious.
(c) A good plot must have disconnected episodes that tie together at the end.
(d) A good plot must be unified.

3. Based on an example in the context of metaphors that Aristotle provides in "Poetics", what is the more general sentence?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) The ship is lying at anchor.
(c) The ship is beached.
(d) The ship is standing

4. Aristotle explains that tragedies should have what that other poems do not?
(a) A much more limited scale.
(b) More irony.
(c) More sadness.
(d) Death.

5. According to "Poetics", what would be the analogy between the pen of a writer and the plow of a farmer?
(a) They are tools: both are used to make a living.
(b) Both are people.
(c) This is not an analogy.
(d) Both work.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what three ways does Aristotle differentiate various art forms from one another?

2. In the abstract of "Poetics", what exists when one set of things has the same relationship to one another as a second set of things has to each other?

3. In a tragedy, Aristotle says that the main character cannot be what?

4. In order for a plot to be truly effective in achieving the desired emotional response from its readers or audience, Aristotle says that the poet must do what?

5. What example does Aristotle provide of recognition occurring through the will of the poet?

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