According to Aristotle, which of the six elements of drama is the most important?

A. Plot
B. Character
C. Language
D. Theme


A. Aristotle wrote in The Poetics that Plot was the most important of the
elements, and that the other elements generally served the plot, and that the plot created
the other elements.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Stravinsky (age 19) and Prokofiev (age 20) were performers and composers for a society called Evenings of Contemporary Music

A) true B) false

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Which figure does NOT exemplify the exacting naturalism that characterizes Flemish portraiture of the fifteenth century?

A. the woman in Jan van Eyck's Double Portrait of A Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife (Fig. 19-1) B. the figure in Jan van Eyck's Man in a Red Turban (Fig. 19-12) C. the Virgin in Dieric Bouts's Virgin and Child (Fig. 19-18) D. the donor in the Mérode Altarpiece by the Master of Flémalle (Fig. 19-10)

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The musical Bran Nue Dae dealt with the lives of indigenous people in which country?

A. Canada B. England C. United States D. Australia

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