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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. In Book III: Conflict, Chapter 1: Origin of Action, the author claims that every action has components that _____.
(a) Cause conflict.
(b) Require thinking.
(c) Cause it to happen.
(d) Cause pain.

2. The author takes a look at when a play's story moves from something like love to hate, and claims that in order to have this, things need to be _____.
(a) Blurred together.
(b) Well-defined.
(c) Gradual.
(d) Quick.

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

4. Who kills Macbeth at the end of "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?
(a) Siward.
(b) Macduff.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Fleance.

5. The author asserts by example that what act more as a unit than humans?
(a) Monkeys
(b) Genes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Ants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Aristotle was a student of _____.

3. 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?

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

5. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?

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