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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book III: Conflict, Chapters 3 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, it is essential that the main character have no _____ toward his ends.
(a) Alternative.
(b) Antagonist.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Battle.

2. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?
(a) Trait.
(b) Genes.
(c) Gout.
(d) Genome.

3. Who is about to dedicate an orphanage that they have built in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob Engstrand.
(b) Helen Alving.
(c) Pastor Manders.
(d) Oswald Alving.

4. What does the author assert arises from environment and one's social situation?
(a) Opinions.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Relationships.

5. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?
(a) Villain.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Obligation.
(d) Antagonist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to any contest or struggle?

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

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

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

5. Who translated Ibsen's "The Pillars of Society" to English?

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