Question
4. Which quotation from the text best summarizes the characteristics that a main
character in a tragedy should possess?
A. "a bad man passing from adversity to prosperity" (Paragraph 2)
B. "a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is
brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error of judgement or
frailty" (Paragraph 2)
C.
"Like the Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot, and also an opposite
catastrophe for the good and for the bad" (Paragraph 4)
D. "quit the stage as friends at the close, and no one slays or is slain."
(Paragraph 4)
Answer
B. "a man who is not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity, but by some error of judgement or frailty" (Paragraph 2)