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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aristotle consider to be the most tragic event?
(a) Two lovers splitting up.
(b) A member of a family killing another.
(c) Adultery.
(d) A mother abandoning her child.

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

3. How does Aristotle characterize tragedies with happy endings?
(a) He says they are Roman poetry.
(b) He calls them great tragedies.
(c) He says they are Greek poetry.
(d) He calls them comedies.

4. As Aristotle states, what ways are epic poems different from other poems, specifically tragedies?
(a) They are much shorter.
(b) The meter of epic poems is unimportant.
(c) They are of considerably greater length and scope.
(d) They tend to rhyme.

5. In art, Aristotle defines the medium as what?
(a) The artist's spiritual inspiration.
(b) The average.
(c) The manner in which the art is produced.
(d) A middle state or condition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a good tragedy, Aristotle explains that the misfortune the main character experiences is usually caused by what?

2. In a tragedy, Aristotle says that the main character cannot be what?

3. As Aristotle explains, why must a poet be sensitive to the nature of language?

4. Aristotle explains that the complication accomplishes what?

5. Aristotle says what type of poetry imitates the "lower" types of men?

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