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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. Who wrote "Oedipus Rex"?
2. What refers to a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization?
3. What was Lajos Egri's profession when he arrived in the United States?
4. What term means a striking exhibition of unlikeness?
5. What term refers to a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with the hero of a work of drama or literature?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the role of character according to the author in Chapter 6: Plot or Character--Which?
2. What example does the author give for the use of dialectics in perceiving contradictions in Book II: Character, Chapter 3: The Dialectical Approach?
3. How does Egri relate the premise to the universal truth?
4. How does the author define premise? What is the importance of the premise?
5. How does Egri relate man's mind with his physical body in describing character development?
6. What is the first step to fleshing out characters, according to the author?
7. How does Egri assert a writer may begin a play without a premise?
8. What does the author assert in Book II: Character, Chapter 5: Strength of Will in a Character about the need to fight?
9. What is the author's premise in opening Book II: Character, Chapter 1?
10. What does orchestration mean? How is it accomplished?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss jumping conflict and melodrama in dramatic literature. What leads to characters "jumping"? How can this be prevented?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Describe Egri's definition of "bone structure." What components make up the bone structure of a character or a person?
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