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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 does the author assert environment influences in drama?
2. When a scene ends the same way it begins, it is ____, and therefore boring because it ignores drama, according to the author.
3. To examine how gradually a person moves from one pole to the other, the author cites from one of _____ works that studies the peaceful death of a perfectly healthy old man.
4. Lajos Egri believes that the greatest fault of the play "Stevedore", is a serious lack of _____.
5. What playwright does the author assert produced badly written plays after World War II had just finished, and dealt with problems rather tame and different, compared to what people had just gone through with the war?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the four divisions of conflict related by the author?
2. What is the author's example from "Tartuffe" regarding conflict?
3. Why might a writer have difficulty with entrances and exits in his play? What does the writer suggest?
4. What is the importance of emotion in the character, according to Egri?
5. How does the author relate conflict to genetics?
6. Where does the author assert exposition should exist in a play?
7. What is the first division of conflict the author describes in detail in the text?
8. What is Egri's response to Aristotle's theory on story structure?
9. How does Egri's student describe the importance of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
10. What does Egri cite from the play "Ghosts" to show transition?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and describe rising conflict in a dramatic work. What feeds the conflict when it is rising? What does the author say of this type of conflict?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Egri's definition of "bone structure." What components make up the bone structure of a character or a person?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the dramatic works written by Lajos Egri. What success did they receive when they were produced?
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