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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the exposition handled in Puff's play?
(a) Neither badly nor brilliantly.
(b) Very well.
(c) There is no exposition in Puff's play.
(d) Badly.

2. What does Plagiary say about Sneer in an aside?
(a) How he is related to Sneer.
(b) How much he dislikes Sneer.
(c) How rich Sneer is.
(d) He does not speak about Sneer in an aside.

3. Who claims that the theatre's deterioration results from the audience?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

4. What does Sneer explain that the writer of his moralistic comedy about a reformed housebreaker is determined to use the theatre for?
(a) To create a new art form.
(b) To make a lot of money.
(c) To reunite with his parents.
(d) To challenge and change the law.

5. When Plagiary asks if Dangle and Sneer like his play, what does Sneer say?
(a) That he hates it.
(b) That he did not read it.
(c) That he used it in his fire.
(d) That he loves it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of play is Sheridan's "The Critic"?

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

3. What does Sheridan's play satirize?

4. What consists of bad poetry in Puff's play?

5. Of what is Plagiary scared?

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