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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 needed to make life keep constantly going, according to the author in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?
(a) Faith.
(b) Determination.
(c) Motion.
(d) Money.

2. What does the author assert environment influences in drama?
(a) Action.
(b) Character.
(c) Premise.
(d) Plot.

3. What does Lajos Egri claim is the premise of "Othello"?
(a) "Great love defies even death."
(b) "Love rewards death."
(c) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."
(d) "Jealousy destroys itself and the object of its love."

4. What American writer wrote "The root-idea is the beginning of the process"?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) John Howard Lawson.
(c) John Steinbeck.
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect invite a girl?

2. What does Lajos Egri define as being what a writer sets out to prove with his story?

3. From whom did Nora borrow money in "A Doll's House"?

4. According to the author, the opposing force of the antagonist absolutely must be _____.

5. Whom was Plato a student of?

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