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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 term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?
(a) Protagonist.
(b) Obligation.
(c) Villain.
(d) Antagonist.

2. Who is Nora's husband in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Torvald.
(b) Dr. Linde.
(c) Krogstad.
(d) Dr. Rank.

3. According to the author, when a writer has pivotal characters and antagonists, he must make certain they are ____.
(a) Fighters.
(b) Creative.
(c) Very similar.
(d) Very different.

4. When did Lajos Egri come to the United States?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1899.

5. What does the author assert is imperative because it shows how a character can move from one emotion to another?
(a) Chapters.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Paragraphs.
(d) Transition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a settlement of differences by mutual concessions, an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims?

2. Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?

3. Who is the father of Oedipus?

4. What is defined as the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work?

5. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?

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