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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. Who tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Dr. Rank.
(b) Christine.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Nora.

2. Who is a carpenter in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Jacob Engstrand.
(b) Captain Alving.
(c) Pastor Manders.
(d) Oswald Alving.

3. The action of "Hedda Gabler" takes place in a villa in _____.
(a) Christiania.
(b) Krostein.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Kane.

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

5. A play is said to be _____ when its characters move too quickly, jumping from emotion to emotion because they are one-dimensional, and their actions make little sense?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Liberal.
(c) Melodrama.
(d) Over-active.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play "Tartuffe"?

2. What is often taught as the act of establishing mood, atmosphere, and background, before the action begins?

3. When a scene ends the same way it begins, it is ____, and therefore boring because it ignores drama, according to the author.

4. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?

5. Hedda Gabler's father in the play of the same name is _____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the author assert exposition should exist in a play?

2. What does Egri cite from the play "Ghosts" to show transition?

3. How is the point of attack defined? Where should it take place, according to the author?

4. What example does the author present for the emergence of conflict in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 1: Origin of Action?

5. What is the importance of emotion in the character, according to Egri?

6. What does Egri show by example with the play "Stevedore"?

7. What is the opposite of rising conflict?

8. What is the first division of conflict the author describes in detail in the text?

9. What is the author's example from "Tartuffe" regarding conflict?

10. What is Egri's response to Aristotle's theory on story structure?

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