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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 is needed to make life keep constantly going, according to the author in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?
(a) Determination.
(b) Faith.
(c) Money.
(d) Motion.

2. The author undoubtedly wants his characters to be the play in order to express _____.
(a) The suspense.
(b) The premise.
(c) The ending.
(d) The plot.

3. Whom does Macbeth first kill in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?
(a) Lennox.
(b) King Duncan.
(c) Banquo.
(d) Seyton.

4. What are defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion?
(a) Personality traits.
(b) Prerogative.
(c) Mentality.
(d) Opinion.

5. It is the job of the character to prove what?
(a) The moral.
(b) The truth.
(c) The plot.
(d) The premise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipus do in the ending of "Oedipus Rex"?

2. 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?

3. Who is Macbeth's friend and a general in the army in "The Tragedy of Macbeth"?

4. What has a reigning power in the presence of a written piece of work according to Lajos Egri?

5. Who hid Desdemona's handkerchief in Cassio's lodging in "Othello"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the author show the importance of character in "Oedipus Rex"?

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

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

7. What is the author's premise in opening Book II: Character, Chapter 1?

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

9. What does Egri say about the writer's doubts about a character's development?

10. What does the author assert of writers who decide to write of their own experiences?

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