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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. 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?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Over-active.
(c) Melodrama.
(d) Conservative.

2. Where has Nora arrived from in the beginning of "A Doll's House"?
(a) Christmas shopping.
(b) Grocery shopping.
(c) The hair salon.
(d) Shoe shopping.

3. What classical Greek Athenian philosopher was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and was known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Heraclitus.

4. What does Lajos Egri claim is the premise of "Othello"?
(a) "Great love defies even death."
(b) "Jealousy destroys itself and the object of its love."
(c) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."
(d) "Love rewards death."

5. What term refers to the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Interest.
(c) Friend.
(d) Protagonist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Lajos Egri define as a state of things in which a decisive change one way or another is impending?

3. What term is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "a proposition antecedently supposed or proved; a basis of argument. A proposition stated or assumed as leading to a conclusion"?

4. To examine how gradually a person moves from one pole to the other, the author cites from one of _____ works that studies the peaceful death of a perfectly healthy old man.

5. When the character neither has a strong will nor knows what he wants, what kind of conflict arises?

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