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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What verb means to lay stress upon stress?
(a) Categorize.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Blow up.
(d) Emphasize.

2. The action of "Hedda Gabler" takes place in a villa in _____.
(a) Christiania.
(b) Kane.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Krostein.

3. It is stated by the author that rising conflict will result in _____.
(a) Transition.
(b) Second-rate dialogue.
(c) First-rate dialogue.
(d) Static.

4. What is defined as the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Psychic writing.
(c) Plot exposure.
(d) Moral giveaway.

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

6. What movement arose in early 20th century German theater of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) Exceptionalism.
(d) Environmentalis.

7. Shakespeare, according to the author, ignored _____ rules for writing.
(a) Plato's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Homer's.
(d) Socrates'.

8. The author asserts by example that what act more as a unit than humans?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Ants.
(c) Monkeys
(d) Genes.

9. When was "Tobacco Road" first performed?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1935.

10. Who wrote the play "Tartuffe"?
(a) Ibsen.
(b) Moliere.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Egri.

11. Who suffers from inherited syphilis in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Helene.
(c) Oswald.
(d) Regina.

12. 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 too poor.
(b) He is ugly.
(c) He is too fat.
(d) He is too short.

13. The author believes the writer to be lost if he is spending his time worrying about _____.
(a) The climax.
(b) Developing secondary characters.
(c) What others will think.
(d) The introduction.

14. What is often referred to as the scene for which everyone is waiting, the scene which has been promised throughout and which cannot be eliminated?
(a) Climax.
(b) Signature.
(c) Obligatory.
(d) Epic.

15. What philosopher surmised that "every story must have a beginning, middle, and an end"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lajos Egri define as a state of things in which a decisive change one way or another is impending?

2. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?

3. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.

4. Where does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect invite a girl?

5. Who wrote the play "Black Pit"?

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