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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. The author asserts that despite bad writing, many plays garner fans because _____.
(a) Their subject is unique.
(b) The actors are attractive.
(c) The costumes are well designed.
(d) The playwright is well known.

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

3. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Plot.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Definition.

4. Where was Lajos Egri born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Argentina.
(c) France.
(d) Hungary.

5. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.
(a) Villains.
(b) Transitions.
(c) Plot.
(d) Emotion.

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. According to the author, it is essential that the main character have no _____ toward his ends.

3. What philosopher surmised that "every story must have a beginning, middle, and an end"?

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

5. What is often referred to as the scene for which everyone is waiting, the scene which has been promised throughout and which cannot be eliminated?

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