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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 must every planned sprint have, according to the author in Book I: The Premise?
(a) A start line.
(b) A starting gun.
(c) Resting points.
(d) A destination.

2. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?
(a) "Rapid Transit".
(b) "There Will be No Performance".
(c) "Devils".
(d) "Believe Me or Not".

3. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.
(a) Imagination.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Premise.
(d) Pen.

4. Aristotle was a student of _____.
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Heraclitus.
(d) Xenophanes.

5. Who reveals he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Christine.
(b) Krogstad.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Nora.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, the opposing force of the antagonist absolutely must be _____.

2. Where is the man who meets the dog going in the author's scenario in Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites?

3. Whom does Macbeth first kill in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

4. In Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites, the author creates a skit where an abandoned street dog makes friends with what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does orchestration mean? How is it accomplished?

2. What example does the author give for the use of dialectics in perceiving contradictions in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?

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

4. How does the author describe contradiction and dialectics?

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

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

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

8. How does Egri relate the premise to the universal truth?

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

10. How does Egri view the correlation between thinking and premise?

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