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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 refers to a person represented in a drama or story?
(a) Character.
(b) Hero.
(c) Antagonist.
(d) Heroine.

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

3. What is Lajos Egri's terminology for the physiological, psychological, and sociological makeup of a character?
(a) Skeleton.
(b) Bone structure.
(c) Anatomy.
(d) Whole being.

4. Whom was Plato a student of?
(a) Xenophanes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Aristotle.

5. 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) Wealth.
(d) Accomplishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Macbeth at the end of "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

2. What childless widow is friends with Nora in "A Doll's House"?

3. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?

4. It is the job of the character to prove what?

5. What term is called storyline, the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story?

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