The Rivals | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Prologue Part 1

1. What play is this for Richard Sheridan?

2. How does the play begin?

3. What does the attorney hand to the sergeant at law?

4. What does the sergeant at law claim when he is given this item?

5. How does the lawyer get the sergeant at law to accept the paper?

6. Who exists the stage first?

7. Who does the sergeant at law present the play to?

8. What does he call the audience?

9. What is being judged?

10. What can Sheridan be found guilty of?

11. What tone is immediately set for the play?

12. By bribing the sergeant at law, who is Sheridan also...
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