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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Critic", what does the specific satirize?
(a) The general.
(b) Actors.
(c) The critics.
(d) The detailed.

2. Who asks for the music to begin?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

3. What is Puff a professional at doing?
(a) Acting in tragedies.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Improving the words and writings of others.
(d) Writing plays.

4. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?
(a) Plagiary's.
(b) Shakespeare's.
(c) Puff's.
(d) Marlowe's.

5. Who comments that Plagiary's humility is false?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of producers do Dangle, Sneer and Plagiary question the wisdom of sending a play to?

2. What is Puff's play about?

3. What is Dangle's only interest?

4. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?

5. How does the prompter say that Puff will find the play?

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