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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. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Premise.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Pen.

2. What does Lajos Egri define as being what a writer sets out to prove with his story?
(a) The premise.
(b) The plot.
(c) The laws of science.
(d) The truth.

3. Where does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect invite a girl?
(a) To a concert.
(b) To a play.
(c) To dinner.
(d) To a wedding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Macbeth first kill in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

2. What verb means to lay stress upon stress?

3. When a scene ends the same way it begins, it is ____, and therefore boring because it ignores drama, according to the author.

4. What refers to a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader?

5. In Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites, the author creates a skit where an abandoned street dog makes friends with what?

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