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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the process of finding two differing bodies, making them the protagonist and antagonist, and making these characters so well defined that you are allowed to put them into a situation in which they are unable to make a compromise?

2. What term refers to the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work?

3. Book II, Character, Chapter 2: Environment discusses how a man's environment, health, and what will shape him into what he is?

4. Who reveals he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis in "A Doll's House"?

5. What term means a striking exhibition of unlikeness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe contradiction and dialectics?

2. What does the author claim is the one key factor in obtaining conflict?

3. What does the author assert in Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character about the need to fight?

4. What is the role of character according to the author in Chapter 6: Plot or Character--Which?

5. How is the antagonist defined and described by the author?

6. How does Egri relate man's mind with his physical body in describing character development?

7. What does the author assert about character development in Chapter 7: Characters Plotting Their Own Play?

8. How does the author claim a story moving from love to hate should be orchestrated?

9. How does Egri assert a writer may begin a play without a premise?

10. What example of growth does the author describe in "A Doll's House"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and discuss the element and characteristics of action. How is action defined by the author? What drives the action of a play?

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss strength of will in character development. Also, define and analyze the terms strength, will, fight, conflict, and transition.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the theories of Egri and Aristotle on the importance of character. How does character relate to action?

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