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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II: Character, Chapters 4 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character, the author sets up a situation where a crime is committed with supposedly no ______.
(a) Victim.
(b) Timetable.
(c) Motive.
(d) Weapon.

2. Whom was Plato a student of?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Heraclitus.
(c) Xenophanes.
(d) Aristotle.

3. When focusing on exactly how the pivotal character will come to lead a cause, the author explains that something is to be _____.
(a) Motivating.
(b) Enlightening.
(c) In conflict.
(d) At stake for them.

4. What does Lajos Egri claim to be the premise of "Romeo and Juliet"?
(a) "Great love defies even death."
(b) "Love rewards death."
(c) "Blind trust leads to destruction."
(d) "Ruthless ambition leads to its own destruction."

5. A play, according to the author, will not work without what central figure who drives the action?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Pivotal character.
(c) Hero.
(d) Protagonist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?

2. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?

3. The author claims that a man's _____ will react to something that affects him physically more so than his body.

4. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?

5. Who advises Juliet to take a strong sleeping draught on the eve of her wedding in "Romeo and Juliet"?

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