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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 4 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Arete.
(d) Accomplishment.

2. What American writer wrote "The root-idea is the beginning of the process"?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) John Howard Lawson.
(d) Langston Hughes.

3. The author undoubtedly wants his characters to be the play in order to express _____.
(a) The ending.
(b) The plot.
(c) The premise.
(d) The suspense.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Book II, Character, Chapter 2: Environment discusses how a man's environment, health, and what will shape him into what he is?

2. What term refers to the process of finding two differing bodies, making them the protagonist and antagonist, and making these characters so well defined that you are allowed to put them into a situation in which they are unable to make a compromise?

3. What is Lajos Egri's terminology for the physiological, psychological, and sociological makeup of a character?

4. What character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?

5. What Classic Greek philosopher claimed character was secondary to action?

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