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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. Who wrote the play "Idiot's Delight"?
(a) Robert E. Sherwood.
(b) Paul Green.
(c) Erskine Caldwell.
(d) John Howard Lawson.

2. Who wrote the play "Hay Fever"?
(a) August Strindberg.
(b) Henrik Ibsen.
(c) Govind Deshpande.
(d) Noel Coward.

3. What refers to a settlement of differences by mutual concessions, an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims?
(a) Treaty.
(b) Qualm.
(c) Truce.
(d) Compromise.

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?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In one line of dialogue, a character will be delighted with their life, and two lines later, disturbingly mad. What kind of conflict is this an example of?

2. What term refers to any contest or struggle?

3. Whom does Oedipus marry?

4. In Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach, the author exemplifies his approach by creating a female character who turns to _____.

5. What refers to a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader?

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