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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 Classic Greek philosopher claimed character was secondary to action?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Xenophanes.
(d) Aristotle.

2. 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?
(a) Dramatic writing.
(b) Conflict escalation.
(c) Conflict creation.
(d) Orchestration.

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

4. Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?
(a) August Strindberg.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) Henrik Ibsen.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Count La Rochelle.
(b) Count Le Mans.
(c) Friar Lille.
(d) Friar Laurence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Oedipus marry?

3. A play, according to the author, will not work without what central figure who drives the action?

4. What French writer and critic born in 1849 said every play needs a goal?

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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