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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When an evil character of a tragic story is suddenly thrust into misfortune, it has been said that this satisfies the moral sense of the audience, but Aristotle asserts that the misfortune does not inspire what?
(a) Pity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anger.
2. What does Aristotle say about Homer's "Iliad"?
(a) It would not work in the format of a tragedy.
(b) It should be more tragic.
(c) It lacks pity.
(d) It reminds him of a bad story.
3. Why does Aristotle believe that a failed action by a person who is aware of the circumstances is considered to be of a certain quality?
(a) A failed action interrupts the flow.
(b) An audience does not like happy endings.
(c) A person who is aware is boring.
(d) The person was already aware and no disaster occurs.
4. Aristotle says that at most, episodic plots involve what?
(a) Strange irony.
(b) Sad middle and happy ending.
(c) Disconnected foreshadowing.
(d) The same characters.
5. According to Aristotle, why do the greatest tragedy poets always choose characters that belong to such groups?
(a) A moral character is more believable.
(b) A character with few friends is more interesting.
(c) A fall from such a great height will impress the spectator.
(d) An educated character is more believable.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is one of the requirements Aristotle mentions for a good tragic plot?
2. How does Aristotle characterize tragedies with happy endings?
3. Aristotle explains that tragedy is not only concerned with the depiction of just any action, but of actions that inspire what?
4. Concerning the "laws of probability and necessity," what statement below is NOT correct according to Aristotle's teachings in "Poetics"?
5. What reason does Aristotle give for Homer excluding many things that Odysseus does on his voyage home in the "Odyssey"?
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