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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. According to the author, a character must represent the influence his _____ has had on him.
(a) Faith.
(b) Upbringing.
(c) Education.
(d) Environment.

2. What term refers to the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population?
(a) Challenges.
(b) Environment.
(c) Endurance.
(d) Destiny.

3. What term is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; a basis of argument. A proposition stated or assumed as leading to a conclusion"?
(a) Axiom.
(b) Prerogative.
(c) Assumption.
(d) Premise.

4. According to the author, every sensible invention must have _____.
(a) Marketability.
(b) A price.
(c) An owner.
(d) A purpose.

5. What Classic Greek philosopher claimed character was secondary to action?
(a) Xenophanes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Sophocles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a person represented in a drama or story?

2. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?

3. Whom does Oedipus marry?

4. 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?

5. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?

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