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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 wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Girish Karnad.
(b) Arthur Adamov.
(c) Govind Deshpande.
(d) Henrik Ibsen.

2. The author believes the writer to be lost if he is spending his time worrying about _____.
(a) Developing secondary characters.
(b) What others will think.
(c) The climax.
(d) The introduction.

3. What term refers to a test, trial, or tentative procedure; an act or operation to discover something unknown or of testing a principle?
(a) Sample.
(b) Dry run.
(c) Experiment.
(d) Guess work.

4. What is often taught as the act of establishing mood, atmosphere, and background, before the action begins?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) Explaining.
(d) Informing.

5. What is defined as the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work?
(a) Moral giveaway.
(b) Plot exposure.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Psychic writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.

2. In Book III: Conflict, Chapter 1: Origin of Action, the author claims that every action has components that _____.

3. 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?

4. What verb means to lay stress upon stress?

5. What movement arose in early 20th century German theater of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the definition and importance of conflict in drama?

4. What does the author write about the obligatory scene?

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

6. Why might a writer have difficulty with entrances and exits in his play? What does the writer suggest?

7. What are the four divisions of conflict related by the author?

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

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

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

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