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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 4 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term is called storyline, the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story?
(a) Tale.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Plot.
(d) Drama.

2. According to the author, you must present a character as _____.
(a) An individual.
(b) A principled person.
(c) An aesthetic.
(d) Beautiful.

3. What French author and dramatist is cited in Book I: The Premise as stating "How can you tell what road to take unless you know where you are going?"
(a) Alexandre Dumas, the Younger.
(b) Jean-Paul Sartre, the Older.
(c) François Mauriac, the Younger.
(d) Henri Bergson, the Older.

4. Whom do Juliet's parents try to get her to marry in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Count Toulouse.
(b) Count Paris.
(c) Count Bordeaux.
(d) Count Marseille.

5. 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?
(a) Bickering.
(b) Debate.
(c) Roundtable discussion.
(d) Dialectic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Macbeth first kill in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

2. Who is Nora's husband in "A Doll's House"?

3. Where was Lajos Egri born?

4. 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?

5. Book II, Character, Chapter 2: Environment discusses how a man's environment, health, and what will shape him into what he is?

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