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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III: Conflict, Chapters 1 -2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nora's last name in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Torvald.
(b) Rank.
(c) Helmer.
(d) Krogstad.

2. Aristotle was a student of _____.
(a) Xenophanes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Heraclitus.

3. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Villain.
(d) Obligation.

4. What French writer and critic born in 1849 said every play needs a goal?
(a) Jean Giraudoux.
(b) Pierre de Ronsard.
(c) Jean Michel Jarre.
(d) Ferdinand Brunetière.

5. Who reveals he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Christine.
(b) Krogstad.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Nora.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?

2. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. Why does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect realize he cannot date a girl?

4. When focusing on exactly how the pivotal character will come to lead a cause, the author explains that something is to be _____.

5. The premise of a dramatic work, according to the author, is not the same as _____.

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