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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle explains that tragedy is not only concerned with the depiction of just any action, but of actions that inspire what?
(a) Pity.
(b) Resentment.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

2. 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 third person.
(b) The method of first person.
(c) The method of imitation.
(d) The method of recognition.

3. In an episodic plot, Aristotle explains that the individual episodes of the story bear what to one another?
(a) Opposition.
(b) Little or no relation to one another.
(c) Irony.
(d) A lot of similarity.

4. Per Aristotle, in which of the following ways does poetry NOT differ from history?
(a) History is concerned simply with facts.
(b) Poetry tells the future, and history tells the past.
(c) Poetry depicts what happens according to the "laws of probability and necessity."
(d) Poetry is a higher pursuit than history.

5. What men does Aristotle consider to be "lower" types?
(a) Men who are defective in some way, but not altogether evil or malicious towards others.
(b) Unemployed men.
(c) Single men.
(d) Men who are poor and unhealthy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Per Aristotle, the unity of plot is what to the unity of a character's actions?

3. Aristotle believes that a poet can turn a complex plot into a simple one by doing what?

4. When one character realizes that another character has fewer morals than he once thought, what does Aristotle say is happening?

5. In poetry, what is the term that Aristotle gives for an action that aims to accomplish a certain goal, but actually accomplishes the opposite?

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