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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Aristotle, how should the plot of a well-written tragedy be structured?
(a) With a logical beginning and end.
(b) It should leave the reader guessing until the end.
(c) With the end that makes readers want more.
(d) A structured plot makes bad poetry.

2. What are the ways Aristotle explains in regard to how poets differ in their representation of the object?
(a) Poets can portray the objects as worse, better, or the same as they are
(b) Poets can portray the object as better or worse, but never the same as they are.
(c) There is no difference in the way poets portray the objects.
(d) Poets can portray the objects as worse or the same as they are.

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

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

5. What two things does Aristotle require to be present in a well-written story?
(a) Conflict and pain.
(b) Rhythm and harmony.
(c) Irony and foreshadowing.
(d) Birth and death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In poetry, Aristotle says that in the "Odyssey" recognition comes about how??

2. Aristotle says that at most, episodic plots involve what?

3. Aristotle asserts that men who find poetry very attractive find great pleasure in what?

4. In an episodic plot, Aristotle explains that the individual episodes of the story bear what to one another?

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

(see the answer key)

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