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

2. What refers to a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization?
(a) Over dramatization.
(b) Megadrama.
(c) Ultimate drama.
(d) Melodrama.

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

4. What refers to a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader?
(a) Manifesto.
(b) Story.
(c) Poem.
(d) Script.

5. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.
(a) Imagination.
(b) Pen.
(c) Premise.
(d) Thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. What was Lajos Egri's profession when he arrived in the United States?

4. What character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?

5. What refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals?

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