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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lajos Egri define as a state of things in which a decisive change one way or another is impending?
(a) Turning point.
(b) Milestone.
(c) Crisis.
(d) Fork in the road.

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

3. 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) Signature.
(b) Climax.
(c) Epic.
(d) Obligatory.

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

5. When did "The Cherry Orchard" premiere?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1904.

6. What is Hedda's married name in the play "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Brack.
(b) Elvsted.
(c) Tesman.
(d) Gabler.

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

8. Who wrote the play "Hay Fever"?
(a) Govind Deshpande.
(b) Noel Coward.
(c) August Strindberg.
(d) Henrik Ibsen.

9. Who is a carpenter in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Oswald Alving.
(b) Captain Alving.
(c) Jacob Engstrand.
(d) Pastor Manders.

10. Who is about to dedicate an orphanage that they have built in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob Engstrand.
(b) Oswald Alving.
(c) Helen Alving.
(d) Pastor Manders.

11. Who wrote the play "Dinner at Eight"?
(a) Henrik Ibsen.
(b) George S. Kaufman.
(c) Edna Ferber.
(d) George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.

12. A play is said to be _____ when its characters move too quickly, jumping from emotion to emotion because they are one-dimensional, and their actions make little sense?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Melodrama.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Over-active.

13. 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.
(a) Benjamin Franklin's.
(b) Leonardo da Vinci's.
(c) Thomas Jefferson's.
(d) William Shakespeare's.

14. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
(a) A student of the author's.
(b) A layman.
(c) A teacher of the author's.
(d) A famous drama critic.

15. 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) Sample.
(c) Experiment.
(d) Dry run.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Egri define as the no-return point and the highest in the scene?

2. 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"?

3. Shakespeare, according to the author, ignored _____ rules for writing.

4. Who wrote the play "Tartuffe"?

5. What is often taught as the act of establishing mood, atmosphere, and background, before the action begins?

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