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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to any contest or struggle?
(a) Obstacle.
(b) Love.
(c) Strife.
(d) Fight.

2. Whom is Christine in love with in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Nora.
(b) Dr. Rank.
(c) Krogstad.
(d) Torvald.

3. What term means a striking exhibition of unlikeness?
(a) Contrast.
(b) Conflict.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Obstacle.

4. Who is Nora's husband in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Krogstad.
(b) Dr. Rank.
(c) Dr. Linde.
(d) Torvald.

5. Whom do Juliet's parents try to get her to marry in "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) Count Paris.
(b) Count Toulouse.
(c) Count Bordeaux.
(d) Count Marseille.

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

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

8. According to the author, it is essential that the main character have no _____ toward his ends.
(a) Alternative.
(b) Battle.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Antagonist.

9. What does Lajos Egri claim to be the premise of "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) "Love rewards death."
(b) "Great love defies even death."
(c) "Blind trust leads to destruction."
(d) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."

10. What does Lajos Egri define as being what a writer sets out to prove with his story?
(a) The plot.
(b) The premise.
(c) The truth.
(d) The laws of science.

11. What term refers to the social and cultural forces that shape the life of a person or a population?
(a) Endurance.
(b) Environment.
(c) Challenges.
(d) Destiny.

12. Whom was Plato a student of?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Xenophanes.
(d) Aristotle.

13. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.
(a) Premise.
(b) Pen.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Thoughts.

14. 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.

15. According to the author, when a writer has pivotal characters and antagonists, he must make certain they are ____.
(a) Very similar.
(b) Very different.
(c) Creative.
(d) Fighters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reveals he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis in "A Doll's House"?

2. What childless widow is friends with Nora in "A Doll's House"?

3. According to the author, a character must represent the influence his _____ has had on him.

4. What French author and dramatist is cited in Book I: The Premise as stating "How can you tell what road to take unless you know where you are going?"

5. Who is the father of Oedipus?

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