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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. Whom does Mrs. Dangle say laughs at her husband behind his back?
(a) Everyone that they know.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Theatre people and non-theatre people alike.
(d) Plagiary.

2. What does Sneer say about Plagiary's play that he has read?
(a) That Sneer wants to produce it.
(b) How awful it is.
(c) That Plagiary should write a sequel.
(d) How wonderful it was.

3. Whose ideas are as empty as his words?
(a) Plagiary's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Dangle's.
(d) Sneer's.

4. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) The prompter.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

5. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?
(a) Dangle's.
(b) The Vestal Virgins'.
(c) The Muses'.
(d) Puff's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?

2. What does Mrs. Dangle tell Plagiary about Dangle and Sneer?

3. Whom does the governor's daughter fall in love with in Puff's play?

4. How did Puff make his living?

5. Who announces Sneer's arrival?

(see the answer key)

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