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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Arete.
(c) Accomplishment.
(d) Wealth.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work?

3. What is a method of argument that has been central to both Indic and European philosophy since ancient times and was made popular by Plato?

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

5. 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"?

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