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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 does Egri define as the no-return point and the highest in the scene?
(a) Peak.
(b) Climax.
(c) Event horizon.
(d) Apex.

2. Who wrote the play "Hymn to the Rising Sun"?
(a) Robert E. Sherwood.
(b) Paul Green.
(c) Erskine Caldwell.
(d) John Howard Lawson.

3. The premise of a dramatic work, according to the author, is not the same as _____.
(a) The plot.
(b) The antagonist.
(c) The protagonist.
(d) A universal truth.

4. Who suffers from inherited syphilis in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Helene.
(b) Oswald.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Regina.

5. The author writes that transition has the power to connect two emotions that are seemingly _____.
(a) Negative.
(b) Positive.
(c) Similar.
(d) Not related.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the play "Tartuffe"?

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

3. Who wrote the play "Hay Fever"?

4. Tartuffe is whose houseguest in the play "Tartuffe"?

5. What dance does the character of Nora famously dance in "A Doll's House"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What work by Leonardo da Vinci does Egri cite as an example of transition?

4. How does the author describe jumping conflict?

5. How does Egri's student describe the importance of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?

6. How is transition shown in Moliere's "Tartuffe" in the text?

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

8. How does the author relate character to action and environment?

9. What does the author show in the play "Design for Living"?

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

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