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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: General, Chapters 1 - 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author takes a look at when a play's story moves from something like love to hate, and claims that in order to have this, things need to be _____.
(a) Blurred together.
(b) Quick.
(c) Well-defined.
(d) Gradual.

2. When did "The Cherry Orchard" premiere?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1911.

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?
(a) Traverse.
(b) Grow.
(c) Diminish.
(d) Transcribe.

4. 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) "There Will be No Performance".
(c) "Rapid Transit".
(d) "Devils".

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?

2. According to the author, every sensible invention must have _____.

3. What is often referred to as the scene for which everyone is waiting, the scene which has been promised throughout and which cannot be eliminated?

4. A play is said to be _____ when its characters move too quickly, jumping from emotion to emotion because they are one-dimensional, and their actions make little sense?

5. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?

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