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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. Who reveals he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Krogstad.
(b) Christine.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Nora.

2. When did Lajos Egri come to the United States?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1899.

3. What happens at the end of "The Cherry Orchard"?
(a) Everyone drinks cherry wine.
(b) A new orchard is planted.
(c) The orchard is cut down.
(d) The cherries are harvested.

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

5. 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) Timetable.
(b) Motive.
(c) Weapon.
(d) Victim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to consistency of the characteristics of persons, objects, places, and events seen by the reader or viewer?

2. What is needed to make life keep constantly going, according to the author in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?

3. In the beginning of "Hedda Gabler", the heroine has just returned home from _____.

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. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?

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