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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: General, Chapters 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the man who meets the dog going in the author's scenario in Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites?
(a) Work.
(b) The courthouse.
(c) The Library.
(d) A restaurant.

2. What does Oedipus do in the ending of "Oedipus Rex"?
(a) Blinds himself.
(b) Shoots himself.
(c) Cuts his wrist.
(d) Hangs himself.

3. Who suffers from inherited syphilis in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Helene.
(c) Oswald.
(d) Regina.

4. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Count Le Mans.
(b) Friar Lille.
(c) Friar Laurence.
(d) Count La Rochelle.

5. 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?
(a) Conflict escalation.
(b) Conflict creation.
(c) Dramatic writing.
(d) Orchestration.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Lajos Egri come to the United States?

2. What movement arose in early 20th century German theater of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights?

3. What does the author assert is the ideal type of conflict?

4. Who wrote the play "Tobacco Road"?

5. What does Lajos Egri define as a state of things in which a decisive change one way or another is impending?

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