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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. What was the original title of "The Art of Dramatic Writing"?
(a) "How to Write a Play".
(b) "A Playwright's Dream".
(c) "The Stage".
(d) "Acting In the Modern World".

2. What does Lajos Egri define as being what a writer sets out to prove with his story?
(a) The truth.
(b) The laws of science.
(c) The plot.
(d) The premise.

3. When did "The Cherry Orchard" premiere?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1911.

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

5. Who is a carpenter in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob Engstrand.
(b) Pastor Manders.
(c) Oswald Alving.
(d) Captain Alving.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What playwright does the author assert produced badly written plays after World War II had just finished, and dealt with problems rather tame and different, compared to what people had just gone through with the war?

3. According to the author, characters must do what, for if a character is the same way in the beginning as he is in the end, the play is bad?

4. What does Lajos Egri claim to be the premise of "Romeo and Juliet"?

5. Aristotle was a student of _____.

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