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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aristotle asserts that men who find poetry very attractive find great pleasure in what?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Eating.
(c) Learning.
(d) Sleeping.

2. What type of action does Aristotle say occurs with "Recognition" and/or "Reversal of Situation"?
(a) Complex.
(b) Bad.
(c) Congruent.
(d) Happy.

3. What does Aristotle consider to be secondary to the most essential element of tragedy?
(a) Development of character.
(b) Development of imitation.
(c) Development of irony.
(d) Development of rhyme.

4. In poetry, Aristotle explains that the "Recognition" is almost always what?
(a) The end of the poem.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A surprise.
(d) Between two characters.

5. In order for a plot to be truly effective in achieving the desired emotional response from its readers or audience, Aristotle says that the poet must do what?
(a) Write a tragedy with a sad ending.
(b) Pick characters that the audience can easily pity.
(c) Pick characters whose relationships to one another make the actions of the plot more interesting.
(d) Infuse irony throughout the story.

6. Aristotle says that at most, episodic plots involve what?
(a) Sad middle and happy ending.
(b) The same characters.
(c) Disconnected foreshadowing.
(d) Strange irony.

7. In the context of poetry, Aristotle explains that rhythm is used in the form of a what?
(a) Specific beat.
(b) Meter.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Mysterious undertone.

8. In an episodic plot, Aristotle explains that the individual episodes of the story bear what to one another?
(a) Little or no relation to one another.
(b) Irony.
(c) Opposition.
(d) A lot of similarity.

9. When a poet simply straightforwardly describes the events as they happen, what method does Aristotle say the poet is using?
(a) The method of recognition.
(b) The method of imitation.
(c) The method of first person.
(d) The method of third person.

10. Like any art, poetry is defined by Aristotle as what?
(a) A theatrical play.
(b) A rhyme with more than four sentences.
(c) A funny story.
(d) A kind of imitation.

11. Per Aristotle, the unity of plot is what to the unity of a character's actions?
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Equivalent.
(c) Influential, but not important.
(d) Not equivalent, but often closely related.

12. What are the ways Aristotle explains in regard to how poets differ in their representation of the object?
(a) Poets can portray the objects as worse or the same as they are.
(b) There is no difference in the way poets portray the objects.
(c) Poets can portray the object as better or worse, but never the same as they are.
(d) Poets can portray the objects as worse, better, or the same as they are

13. Aristotle explains that tragedy is not only concerned with the depiction of just any action, but of actions that inspire what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Pity.
(c) Resentment.
(d) Happiness.

14. Aristotle teaches that the beginning of a well-written tragedy starts at what point?
(a) Where the narrative has dependence upon events that happen prior to it.
(b) With the end and uses the method of flashback to tell the rest.
(c) In the middle and uses the method of flashback to tell what preceded.
(d) Where the narrative has no dependence upon events that happened prior to it.

15. Into what two types does Aristotle divide actions?
(a) Congruent and incongruent.
(b) Good and bad.
(c) Happy and sad.
(d) Simple and complex.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what three ways does Aristotle differentiate various art forms from one another?

2. What two things does Aristotle require to be present in a well-written story?

3. When one character realizes that another character has fewer morals than he once thought, what does Aristotle say is happening?

4. When the poet takes the appropriate steps in developing plot, Aristotle explains that the poet is much more likely to do what?

5. Men are drawn to write poetry for several reasons. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons Aristotle provides?

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