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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book IV: General, Chapters 9 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a prototypical filmed or taped feature, produced with hopes of network adoption as a television series and aired to test potential viewer interest and attract sponsors?
(a) Appetizer.
(b) Pilot.
(c) Starter.
(d) Sample.

2. In Book III: Conflict, Chapter 1: Origin of Action, the author claims that every action has components that _____.
(a) Cause pain.
(b) Cause conflict.
(c) Cause it to happen.
(d) Require thinking.

3. What human dimension are class, occupation, and education examples of?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Biology.

4. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Villain.
(c) Obligation.
(d) Protagonist.

5. What is a method of argument that has been central to both Indic and European philosophy since ancient times and was made popular by Plato?
(a) Debate.
(b) Dialectic.
(c) Bickering.
(d) Roundtable discussion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert arises from environment and one's social situation?

2. Who is a carpenter in the play "Ghosts"?

3. What term refers to the process of finding two differing bodies, making them the protagonist and antagonist, and making these characters so well defined that you are allowed to put them into a situation in which they are unable to make a compromise?

4. Shakespeare, according to the author, ignored _____ rules for writing.

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

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