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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 the last name of Sorel and Simon in "Hay Fever"?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Bailston.
(c) Bass.
(d) Boone.
2. Who wrote the play "Dinner at Eight"?
(a) Henrik Ibsen.
(b) George S. Kaufman.
(c) Edna Ferber.
(d) George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber.
3. When a writer has trouble entering and exiting his characters, the author believes he _____.
(a) Doesn't know them well enough.
(b) Threatened by them.
(c) Hasn't developed them.
(d) Removed from them.
4. What verb means to lay stress upon stress?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Blow up.
(c) Emphasize.
(d) Categorize.
5. What does the author assert is imperative because it shows how a character can move from one emotion to another?
(a) Transition.
(b) Chapters.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Paragraphs.
Short Answer Questions
1. Shakespeare, according to the author, ignored _____ rules for writing.
2. The premise of a dramatic work, according to the author, is not the same as _____.
3. What dance does the character of Nora famously dance in "A Doll's House"?
4. Who wrote that the obligatory scene "is the immediate goal toward which the play is driving"?
5. What does Lajos Egri define as a state of things in which a decisive change one way or another is impending?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the four divisions of conflict related by the author?
2. How does the author approach the discussion of exposition in a dramatic work?
3. What does the author write about the obligatory scene?
4. How is transition shown in Moliere's "Tartuffe" in the text?
5. Where does the author assert exposition should exist in a play?
6. What does Egri show by example with the play "Stevedore"?
7. What is the importance of emotion in the character, according to Egri?
8. How does the author relate character to action and environment?
9. What is the opposite of rising conflict?
10. How can messages be conveyed with dialogue? What should the writer avoid?
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