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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 character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?
(a) Quadradimensionality.
(b) Pentadimensionality.
(c) Bidimensionality.
(d) Tridimensionality.

2. Who is Romeo's cousin in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Benvolio.
(b) Friar John.
(c) Mercutio.
(d) Abram.

3. 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) Transcribe.
(b) Diminish.
(c) Grow.
(d) Traverse.

4. A play, according to the author, will not work without what central figure who drives the action?
(a) Hero.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Pivotal character.

5. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Xenophanes.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, when a writer has pivotal characters and antagonists, he must make certain they are ____.

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

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?

4. What does the author assert is imperative because it shows how a character can move from one emotion to another?

5. What does the author assert environment influences in drama?

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