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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs without "Recognition" or "Reversal of Situation"?
(a) Good.
(b) Incongruent.
(c) Sad.
(d) Simple.

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

3. What does Aristotle call the individual episodes of a story with an episodic plot?
(a) Isolated stories.
(b) Dependent stories.
(c) Interesting.
(d) Funny.

4. What is history according to Aristotle?
(a) Lies.
(b) Concerned simply with facts.
(c) Rumors promoted as truth.
(d) Accounts that may or may not have happened.

5. In art, what does Aristotle believe to be the object?
(a) What the art imitates.
(b) Usually an animal.
(c) Something solid.
(d) Usually a person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Concerning the "laws of probability and necessity," what statement below is NOT correct according to Aristotle's teachings in "Poetics"?

2. What does Aristotle identify as the most essential element of tragedy?

3. Like any art, poetry is defined by Aristotle as what?

4. In the context of poetry, Aristotle explains that rhythm is used in the form of a what?

5. Aristotle defines poetic work as what?

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