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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Over-active.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Liberal.
(d) Melodrama.

2. "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) Messages.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Opinion.
(d) Ideas.

3. Who is the priest in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Cleric Alving.
(b) Pastor Manders.
(c) Pastor Engstrand.
(d) Cleric Engstrand.

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

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

6. What dance does the character of Nora famously dance in "A Doll's House"?
(a) The Waltz.
(b) The Tarantella.
(c) The Tango.
(d) The Jitterbug.

7. Who wrote the play "Hymn to the Rising Sun"?
(a) Robert E. Sherwood.
(b) Erskine Caldwell.
(c) Paul Green.
(d) John Howard Lawson.

8. Hedda Gabler's father in the play of the same name is _____.
(a) A corporal.
(b) A general.
(c) A lieutenant.
(d) A sergeant.

9. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?
(a) Genome.
(b) Gout.
(c) Genes.
(d) Trait.

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

11. When the character neither has a strong will nor knows what he wants, what kind of conflict arises?
(a) Stagnant.
(b) Static.
(c) Fermented.
(d) Stale.

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

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

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

15. What is the last name of Sorel and Simon in "Hay Fever"?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Boone.
(c) Bailston.
(d) Bass.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What term refers to a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation to discover something unknown or of testing a principle?

3. 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.

4. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?

5. Who wrote the play "Hay Fever"?

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