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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must every planned sprint have, according to the author in Book I: The Premise?
(a) A starting gun.
(b) Resting points.
(c) A start line.
(d) A destination.

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

3. What classical Greek Athenian philosopher was credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy and was known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Heraclitus.

4. When was Lajos Egri born?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1885.

5. What refers to a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization?
(a) Over dramatization.
(b) Melodrama.
(c) Megadrama.
(d) Ultimate drama.

6. Who is the father of Oedipus?
(a) King Pelops.
(b) King Laius.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Creon.

7. According to the author, you must present a character as _____.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) A principled person.
(c) An individual.
(d) An aesthetic.

8. According to the author, every sensible invention must have _____.
(a) An owner.
(b) Marketability.
(c) A purpose.
(d) A price.

9. Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?
(a) August Strindberg.
(b) Anton Chekhov.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Henrik Ibsen.

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

11. What term refers to a lack of conflict in a scene or play?
(a) Static.
(b) Drama.
(c) Boring.
(d) Peace.

12. What does Lajos Egri claim is the premise of "Othello"?
(a) "Love rewards death."
(b) "Jealousy destroys itself and the object of its love."
(c) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."
(d) "Great love defies even death."

13. What was Lajos Egri's profession when he arrived in the United States?
(a) Chimney sweep.
(b) Garment worker.
(c) Shoe shiner.
(d) Farmer.

14. What French writer and critic born in 1849 said every play needs a goal?
(a) Pierre de Ronsard.
(b) Ferdinand Brunetière.
(c) Jean Giraudoux.
(d) Jean Michel Jarre.

15. What refers to a settlement of differences by mutual concessions, an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims?
(a) Compromise.
(b) Truce.
(c) Treaty.
(d) Qualm.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

2. 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 ______.

3. What American writer wrote "The root-idea is the beginning of the process"?

4. Where was Lajos Egri born?

5. Lajos Egri asserts that growth is a real character's reaction to his _____.

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