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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author writes that transition has the power to connect two emotions that are seemingly _____.
(a) Similar.
(b) Negative.
(c) Not related.
(d) Positive.

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

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

5. Where does the man in the author's short skit in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect invite a girl?
(a) To a play.
(b) To dinner.
(c) To a wedding.
(d) To a concert.

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

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

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

9. When a writer has trouble entering and exiting his characters, the author believes he _____.
(a) Threatened by them.
(b) Doesn't know them well enough.
(c) Removed from them.
(d) Hasn't developed them.

10. The author asserts that despite bad writing, many plays garner fans because _____.
(a) The actors are attractive.
(b) The costumes are well designed.
(c) Their subject is unique.
(d) The playwright is well known.

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

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

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

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

15. 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) Samantha.
(b) Dr. Rank.
(c) Nora.
(d) Christine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play "Tartuffe"?

2. Tartuffe is whose houseguest in the play "Tartuffe"?

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

4. What does the author assert environment influences in drama?

5. Who wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?

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