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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the psychological classification of different types of individuals?
(a) Personality type.
(b) Attitude.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Race.

2. Whom is Christine in love with in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Dr. Rank.
(b) Krogstad.
(c) Nora.
(d) Torvald.

3. What is Lajos Egri's terminology for the physiological, psychological, and sociological makeup of a character?
(a) Whole being.
(b) Anatomy.
(c) Skeleton.
(d) Bone structure.

4. According to the author, characters must do what, for if a character is the same way in the beginning as he is in the end, the play is bad?
(a) Transcribe.
(b) Traverse.
(c) Grow.
(d) Diminish.

5. What refers to a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization?
(a) Ultimate drama.
(b) Over dramatization.
(c) Megadrama.
(d) Melodrama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the process of finding two differing bodies, making them the protagonist and antagonist, and making these characters so well defined that you are allowed to put them into a situation in which they are unable to make a compromise?

2. Who is Romeo's cousin in "Romeo and Juliet"?

3. In Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites, the author states that the antagonist and pivotal character absolutely cannot do what?

4. The author undoubtedly wants his characters to be the play in order to express _____.

5. What does Lajos Egri claim is the premise of "Othello"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What example does the author set up in Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character?

2. What does the author say about compromise between the pivotal character and the antagonist? Can it be achieved?

3. How does Egri assert a writer may begin a play without a premise?

4. What example does the author give to explain the unity of opposites?

5. What examples does Egri use in Book I: The Premise to describe love in a play?

6. What must be at stake for the pivotal character, according to the author?

7. Do all writers know their premise? What are the author's thoughts on this?

8. What does the author claim is the one key factor in obtaining conflict?

9. What example of growth does the author describe in "A Doll's House"?

10. How does the author claim a story moving from love to hate should be orchestrated?

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