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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that everyone is always eager to hear as mentioned in the prologue of the play?
(a) Bad reports and gossip about people.
(b) The sound of money jingling in a pocket.
(c) Secular music.
(d) Good news about people.

2. What is the audience advised not to do as a presentation of "The School for Scandal and Other Plays" is about to begin?
(a) Create or listen to tales of scandal about others.
(b) Applaud between scenes.
(c) Share the storyline with anyone who has not seen the play.
(d) Smoke in the playhouse.

3. Which of the lady's abilities does the gentleman praise?
(a) Her ability to speak many different languages.
(b) Her beauty.
(c) Her artistic abilities.
(d) Her subtle abilities of bringing people down.

4. Who is David Garrick?
(a) Stagehand.
(b) Theatre critic.
(c) The writer.
(d) Member of the audience.

5. Whose words are used in the prologue to the play?
(a) Samuel Trent.
(b) David Garrick.
(c) Margaret Nickleby.
(d) Caroline Clavell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are two activities that Charles Surface is notorious for engaging in?

2. How do most people feel about the subject of the play?

3. What are members of the audience for the play advised that appearances are capable of doing?

4. What does the speaker of the Prologue say will be the subject of the play?

5. Lady Sneerwell is planning to pair off Maria with whom of the following?

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