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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 name of Hedda's husband in "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Berte.
(b) Ejlert.
(c) Henry.
(d) Jorgen.
2. In rising conflict, each conflict causes _____.
(a) Character growth.
(b) More drama.
(c) The one after it.
(d) A resolution.
3. What is always relative to someone or something, according to the author?
(a) Catharsis.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Definition.
(d) Plot.
4. In the beginning of "Hedda Gabler", the heroine has just returned home from _____.
(a) The neighbor's house.
(b) Her honeymoon.
(c) Church.
(d) The market.
5. When the character neither has a strong will nor knows what he wants, what kind of conflict arises?
(a) Fermented.
(b) Stale.
(c) Stagnant.
(d) Static.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
3. The action of "Hedda Gabler" takes place in a villa in _____.
4. What movement arose in early 20th century German theater of which Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller were the most famous playwrights?
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. How is transition shown in Moliere's "Tartuffe" in the text?
2. What is the opposite of rising conflict?
3. What is Egri's response to Aristotle's theory on story structure?
4. What is the author's example from "Tartuffe" regarding conflict?
5. How is the point of attack defined? Where should it take place, according to the author?
6. What work by Leonardo da Vinci does Egri cite as an example of transition?
7. Where does the author assert exposition should exist in a play?
8. How does the author approach the discussion of exposition in a dramatic work?
9. What are the four divisions of conflict related by the author?
10. How does Egri's student describe the importance of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
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