2. In the beginning of "Hedda Gabler", the heroine has just returned home from _____.
(a) Church.
(b) Her honeymoon.
(c) The neighbor's house.
(d) The market.

3. What does Nora do in the ending of "A Doll's House"?
(a) Leaves her husband.
(b) Kills herself.
(c) Falls ill.
(d) Kills her husband.

4. 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"?
(a) Christine.
(b) Samantha.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Nora.

5. Why does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect realize he cannot date a girl?
(a) He is ugly.
(b) He is too poor.
(c) He is too short.
(d) He is too fat.

6. What does the author assert environment influences in drama?
(a) Action.
(b) Character.
(c) Plot.
(d) Premise.

7. Who wrote the play "Stevedore"?
(a) Henrik Ibsen.
(b) George S. Kaufman.
(c) Paul Peters.
(d) Edna Ferber.

8. What term refers to a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation to discover something unknown or of testing a principle?
(a) Guess work.
(b) Dry run.
(c) Experiment.
(d) Sample.

9. Who wrote that the obligatory scene "is the immediate goal toward which the play is driving"?
(a) John Howard Lawson.
(b) Albert Maltz.
(c) Anton Chekhov.
(d) Lajos Egri.

10. What playwright does the author assert produced badly written plays after World War II had just finished, and dealt with problems rather tame and different, compared to what people had just gone through with the war?
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Robert E. Sherwood.
(c) Erskine Caldwell.
(d) Osias L. Schwarz.

11. "Hymn to the Rising Sun" is cited in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue to prove how _____ can be put forth competently without force or illogical, out-of-character dialogue?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Opinion.
(c) Messages.
(d) Rhetoric.

12. Who wrote the play "Tobacco Road"?
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Osias L. Schwarz.
(c) Erskine Caldwell.
(d) Robert E. Sherwood.

13. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?
(a) Definition.
(b) Plot.
(c) Catharsis.
(d) Conflict.

14. How is the man described in the author's short skit presented in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect?
(a) A boring old man.
(b) A cordial twenty-something.
(c) Uptight.
(d) A clumsy fool.

15. Tartuffe is whose houseguest in the play "Tartuffe"?
(a) Mariane.
(b) Orgon.
(c) Madame Pernelle.
(d) Elmire.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one line of dialogue, a character will be delighted with their life, and two lines later, disturbingly mad. What kind of conflict is this an example of?

2. Who wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?

3. What dance does the character of Nora famously dance in "A Doll's House"?

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

5. What is the name of Hedda's husband in "Hedda Gabler"?

(see the answer keys)

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