The Critic | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1

1. What is the driving force of this play?

2. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?

3. Who speaks in the Prologue?

4. Where was "The Critic" first performed?

5. What does the Prologue accuse the Muses of being corrupted by?

6. What author is alluded to in the Prologue?

7. Where does Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1 begin?

8. As the first scene opens, what are Mr. and Mrs. Dangle doing?

9. What is Dangle's only interest?

10. Who is the well-known writer whose pending production Dangle reads about in Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?

11. With what does Mrs. Dangle claim her husband...
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