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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) Emphasize.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Blow up.
(d) Categorize.

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

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

4. What does the author assert arises from environment and one's social situation?
(a) Conflict.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Opinions.

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

6. What does the author assert is the ideal type of conflict?
(a) Extreme.
(b) Abrupt.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Rising.

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

8. Who wrote the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) Lajos Egri.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Henrik Ibsen.

9. 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 poor.
(d) He is too short.

10. In rising conflict, each conflict causes _____.
(a) The one after it.
(b) A resolution.
(c) More drama.
(d) Character growth.

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

12. When a play jumps, the conflict lags, and if that happens, the trouble is directed back to not having a clear-cut what?
(a) Villain.
(b) Plot.
(c) Premise.
(d) Hero.

13. Who is the pivotal character in "The Cherry Orchard"?
(a) Mme. Ranevsky.
(b) Anya.
(c) Varya.
(d) Leonid Andreyevitch Gaev.

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

15. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.
(a) Transitions.
(b) Villains.
(c) Emotion.
(d) Plot.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Who wrote the play "Tobacco Road"?

3. 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?

4. Who wrote the play "Idiot's Delight"?

5. Who suffers from inherited syphilis in the play "Ghosts"?

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