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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. What does Nora do in the ending of "A Doll's House"?
(a) Falls ill.
(b) Leaves her husband.
(c) Kills her husband.
(d) Kills herself.

2. In Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character, the author sets up a situation where a crime is committed with supposedly no ______.
(a) Victim.
(b) Motive.
(c) Weapon.
(d) Timetable.

3. What is often taught as the act of establishing mood, atmosphere, and background, before the action begins?
(a) Explaining.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) Informing.

4. Who is Nora's husband in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Torvald.
(b) Dr. Linde.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Krogstad.

5. What does the author assert is the ideal type of conflict?
(a) Rising.
(b) Abrupt.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Extreme.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, when a writer has pivotal characters and antagonists, he must make certain they are ____.

2. What has a reigning power in the presence of a written piece of work according to Lajos Egri?

3. The author believes the writer to be lost if he is spending his time worrying about _____.

4. What term refers to a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation to discover something unknown or of testing a principle?

5. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.

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