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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) Money.
(d) Motion.

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

3. What does Lajos Egri claim to be the premise of King Lear?
(a) "Love rewards death."
(b) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."
(c) "Jealousy destroys itself and the object of its love."
(d) "Blind trust leads to destruction."

4. According to the author, characters must do what, for if a character is the same way in the beginning as he is in the end, the play is bad?
(a) Diminish.
(b) Grow.
(c) Traverse.
(d) Transcribe.

5. When was "Oedipus Rex" first performed?
(a) 429 A.D.
(b) 249 B.C.
(c) 249 A.D.
(d) 429 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom was Plato a student of?

2. What was the original title of "The Art of Dramatic Writing"?

3. What does Lajos Egri state first and foremost the writer must have of his characters?

4. According to the author, you must present a character as _____.

5. What classical Greek Athenian philosopher was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and was known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students?

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