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

2. Who tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Dr. Rank.
(b) Nora.
(c) Christine.
(d) Samantha.

3. Whom does Oedipus marry?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Phoebe.
(c) Acredes.
(d) Ione.

4. Who is the pivotal character in "The Cherry Orchard"?
(a) Anya.
(b) Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev.
(c) Mme. Ranevsky.
(d) Varya.

5. What character element is established from detailing his body and health, the people around him and his environment, and his mind?
(a) Pentadimensionality.
(b) Tridimensionality.
(c) Bidimensionality.
(d) Quadradimensionality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?

2. What term refers to the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population?

3. What does Lajos Egri define as being what a writer sets out to prove with his story?

4. When did "The Cherry Orchard" premiere?

5. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?

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