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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In poetry, what is the term that Aristotle gives for an action that aims to accomplish a certain goal, but actually accomplishes the opposite?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Reversal of Situation.
(c) Irony.
(d) Failure.

2. Into what two types does Aristotle divide actions?
(a) Good and bad.
(b) Happy and sad.
(c) Congruent and incongruent.
(d) Simple and complex.

3. Aristotle says that storytelling with episodic plots is to be favored by whom?
(a) Poor poets.
(b) Homer.
(c) No one.
(d) Aristotle.

4. If the problem conquers the characters, how does Aristotle say the tragedy ends?
(a) It ends just at the right time.
(b) Unhappily.
(c) Happily.
(d) Successfully.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a poet simply straightforwardly describes the events as they happen, what method does Aristotle say the poet is using?

2. Into how many parts does Aristotle say a language can be divided?

3. Based on Aristotle's "Poetics", great tragedy poets always choose characters that belong to what?

4. Based on Aristotle's teachings, if the main character of a tragedy is totally without fault, his fall would not be due to his own fault, but rather what?

5. What other name does Aristotle give to the conclusion of a tragedy?

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