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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Nora's husband in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Krogstad.
(b) Dr. Rank.
(c) Dr. Linde.
(d) Torvald.

2. According to the author, characters must do what, for if a character is the same way in the beginning as he is in the end, the play is bad?
(a) Diminish.
(b) Transcribe.
(c) Traverse.
(d) Grow.

3. What childless widow is friends with Nora in "A Doll's House"?
(a) Christine Linde.
(b) Christine Rank.
(c) Christine Krogstad.
(d) Christine Torvald.

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

5. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Xenophanes.

6. What are defined as habitual patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Prerogative.
(c) Personality traits.
(d) Mentality.

7. It is the job of the character to prove what?
(a) The truth.
(b) The moral.
(c) The plot.
(d) The premise.

8. What expressionist play by Lajos Egri was translated from Hungarian and produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in the 1920s?
(a) "Rapid Transit".
(b) "Devils".
(c) "There Will be No Performance".
(d) "Believe Me or Not".

9. What was Lajos Egri's profession when he arrived in the United States?
(a) Garment worker.
(b) Chimney sweep.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Shoe shiner.

10. 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) In conflict.
(c) Enlightening.
(d) At stake for them.

11. The Sophists taught what, meaning quality or excellence as the highest value and determinant of one's actions in life?
(a) Arete.
(b) Accomplishment.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Virtue.

12. Where was Lajos Egri born?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Hungary.
(d) Argentina.

13. What has a reigning power in the presence of a written piece of work according to Lajos Egri?
(a) Character.
(b) Catharsis.
(c) Plot.
(d) Structure.

14. Who wrote the play "A Doll's House"?
(a) Anton Chekhov.
(b) August Strindberg.
(c) Henrik Ibsen.
(d) William Shakespeare.

15. Lajos Egri compels the writer to know that their characters should not be dependent on their _____.
(a) Thoughts.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Pen.
(d) Premise.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Lajos Egri born?

2. Lajos Egri asserts that growth is a real character's reaction to his _____.

3. Why can't the man in the scenario created by the author in Book II, Character, Chapter 11: Unity of Opposites take the dog home?

4. Aristotle was a student of _____.

5. What is needed to make life keep constantly going, according to the author in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?

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