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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Xenophanes.
(d) Sophocles.

3. 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) Meaning.
(b) Plot.
(c) Tale.
(d) Drama.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?

2. What are defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion?

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

4. Who is the father of Oedipus?

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

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