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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 the author assert environment influences in drama?
(a) Action.
(b) Premise.
(c) Character.
(d) Plot.
2. According to the author, a good _____ is where something vital is at stake at the very beginning of a play.
(a) Introduction.
(b) Plot.
(c) Point of attack.
(d) Storyline.
3. What is Hedda's married name in the play "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Tesman.
(b) Brack.
(c) Gabler.
(d) Elvsted.
4. How is the man described in the author's short skit presented in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 2: Cause and Effect?
(a) A cordial twenty-something.
(b) A clumsy fool.
(c) A boring old man.
(d) Uptight.
5. Who is the priest in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Pastor Engstrand.
(b) Pastor Manders.
(c) Cleric Alving.
(d) Cleric Engstrand.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who wrote the play "Hedda Gabler"?
2. Who is about to dedicate an orphanage that they have built in the play "Ghosts"?
3. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
4. Who wrote that the obligatory scene "is the immediate goal toward which the play is driving"?
5. In rising conflict, each conflict causes _____.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Egri cite from the play "Ghosts" to show transition?
2. How can messages be conveyed with dialogue? What should the writer avoid?
3. What does the author show in the play "Design for Living"?
4. How does the author approach the discussion of exposition in a dramatic work?
5. What example does the author present for the emergence of conflict in Book III: Conflict, Chapter 1: Origin of Action?
6. What kind of conflict does the author exemplify in the play "Idiot's Delight"?
7. Where does the author assert exposition should exist in a play?
8. What does the author write about the obligatory scene?
9. How is the point of attack defined? Where should it take place, according to the author?
10. What does Egri show by example with the play "Stevedore"?
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