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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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) Moral giveaway.
(b) Psychic writing.
(c) Plot exposure.
(d) Foreshadowing.

5. 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?
(a) Flip-flop.
(b) Bi-polar.
(c) Unpredictable.
(d) Jumping.

6. How many children does Nora have in "A Doll's House"?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

8. Who wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Henrik Ibsen.
(b) Arthur Adamov.
(c) Govind Deshpande.
(d) Girish Karnad.

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

10. What does Egri define as the no-return point and the highest in the scene?
(a) Peak.
(b) Climax.
(c) Event horizon.
(d) Apex.

11. 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) Osias L. Schwarz.
(b) Erskine Caldwell.
(c) Robert E. Sherwood.
(d) Noel Coward.

12. Who wrote the play "Black Pit"?
(a) Albert Maltz.
(b) Henrik Ibsen.
(c) George S. Kaufman.
(d) Paul Peters.

13. The premise of a dramatic work, according to the author, is not the same as _____.
(a) The plot.
(b) The protagonist.
(c) The antagonist.
(d) A universal truth.

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

15. Who wrote the play "Idiot's Delight"?
(a) Erskine Caldwell.
(b) Paul Green.
(c) Robert E. Sherwood.
(d) John Howard Lawson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Cherry Orchard"?

2. What does the author assert arises from environment and one's social situation?

3. Who is a carpenter in the play "Ghosts"?

4. What does Nora do in the ending of "A Doll's House"?

5. Who wrote the play "Ghosts"?

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