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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did "The Cherry Orchard" premiere?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1904.

2. When a play jumps, the conflict lags, and if that happens, the trouble is directed back to not having a clear-cut what?
(a) Hero.
(b) Villain.
(c) Premise.
(d) Plot.

3. What is the name of Hedda's husband in "Hedda Gabler"?
(a) Berte.
(b) Ejlert.
(c) Jorgen.
(d) Henry.

4. It is stated by the author that rising conflict will result in _____.
(a) Second-rate dialogue.
(b) Static.
(c) Transition.
(d) First-rate dialogue.

5. In the beginning of "Hedda Gabler", the heroine has just returned home from _____.
(a) Her honeymoon.
(b) Church.
(c) The neighbor's house.
(d) The market.

6. 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?
(a) Noel Coward.
(b) Robert E. Sherwood.
(c) Osias L. Schwarz.
(d) Erskine Caldwell.

7. Who offers an explanation of dialogue in Book IV: General, Chapter 3: Dialogue?
(a) A layman.
(b) A famous drama critic.
(c) A teacher of the author's.
(d) A student of the author's.

8. What does Nora do in the ending of "A Doll's House"?
(a) Leaves her husband.
(b) Kills herself.
(c) Falls ill.
(d) Kills her husband.

9. Who is about to dedicate an orphanage that they have built in the play "Ghosts"?
(a) Pastor Manders.
(b) Helen Alving.
(c) Jacob Engstrand.
(d) Oswald Alving.

10. What does Egri define as the no-return point and the highest in the scene?
(a) Apex.
(b) Event horizon.
(c) Climax.
(d) Peak.

11. When a writer has trouble entering and exiting his characters, the author believes he _____.
(a) Removed from them.
(b) Doesn't know them well enough.
(c) Hasn't developed them.
(d) Threatened by them.

12. Who wrote the play "Hay Fever"?
(a) August Strindberg.
(b) Govind Deshpande.
(c) Henrik Ibsen.
(d) Noel Coward.

13. In one line of dialogue, a character will be delighted with their life, and two lines later, disturbingly mad. What kind of conflict is this an example of?
(a) Unpredictable.
(b) Bi-polar.
(c) Jumping.
(d) Flip-flop.

14. What happens at the end of "The Cherry Orchard"?
(a) A new orchard is planted.
(b) The cherries are harvested.
(c) Everyone drinks cherry wine.
(d) The orchard is cut down.

15. Hedda Gabler's father in the play of the same name is _____.
(a) A lieutenant.
(b) A sergeant.
(c) A corporal.
(d) A general.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Nora have in "A Doll's House"?

2. What does the author assert is the ideal type of conflict?

3. What refers to the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA?

4. What is Hedda's married name in the play "Hedda Gabler"?

5. When a scene ends the same way it begins, it is ____, and therefore boring because it ignores drama, according to the author.

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