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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. Who hid Desdemona's handkerchief in Cassio's lodging in "Othello"?
(a) Iago.
(b) Bianca.
(c) Gratiano.
(d) Emilia.

2. What does the author claim causes motion in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?
(a) Commotion.
(b) Craziness.
(c) Contradiction.
(d) Kinetic energy.

3. What character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?
(a) Bidimensionality.
(b) Tridimensionality.
(c) Pentadimensionality.
(d) Quadradimensionality.

4. In Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character, the author sets up a situation where a crime is committed with supposedly no ______.
(a) Victim.
(b) Motive.
(c) Weapon.
(d) Timetable.

5. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?
(a) "Believe Me or Not".
(b) "Rapid Transit".
(c) "Devils".
(d) "There Will be No Performance".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom do Juliet's parents try to get her to marry in "Romeo and Juliet"?

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

5. What American writer wrote "The root-idea is the beginning of the process"?

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