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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. Who hid Desdemona's handkerchief in Cassio's lodging in "Othello"?
(a) Gratiano.
(b) Iago.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Bianca.

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

3. The author stresses that it is bad play writing to create atmosphere and gather evidence of the problem before establishing _____.
(a) Environment.
(b) Characters.
(c) Plot.
(d) Conflict.

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

5. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Accomplishment.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Arete.

Short Answer Questions

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

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"?

3. When focusing on exactly how the pivotal character will come to lead a cause, the author explains that something is to be _____.

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

5. 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 _____.

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