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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III: Conflict, Chapters 8 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character, the author sets up a situation where a crime is committed with supposedly no ______.
(a) Weapon.
(b) Timetable.
(c) Victim.
(d) Motive.

2. Who is the father of Oedipus?
(a) King Laius.
(b) King Pelops.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Creon.

3. What philosopher surmised that "every story must have a beginning, middle, and an end"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Homer.

4. Where has Nora arrived from in the beginning of "A Doll's House"?
(a) Shoe shopping.
(b) The hair salon.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Christmas shopping.

5. What does Oedipus do in the ending of "Oedipus Rex"?
(a) Blinds himself.
(b) Cuts his wrist.
(c) Shoots himself.
(d) Hangs himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Christine in love with in "A Doll's House"?

2. What does the author assert is the ideal type of conflict?

3. The author asserts by example that what act more as a unit than humans?

4. The author writes that transition has the power to connect two emotions that are seemingly _____.

5. To examine how gradually a person moves from one pole to the other, the author cites from one of _____ works that studies the peaceful death of a perfectly healthy old man.

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