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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Sneer compare the modesty of audiences?
(a) The true modesty of nuns.
(b) The false modesty of teachers.
(c) The false modesty of police officers.
(d) The false modesty of prostitutes.

2. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) The public.

3. What is Plagiary unable to accept?
(a) True criticism.
(b) Money from his parents.
(c) A job from Sneer.
(d) A relationship.

4. Whom does the servant announce at the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sir Fretful Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What claim does Dangle make in defense of the theatre?

2. Who comments that Plagiary's humility is false?

3. Where does Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1 begin?

4. What does the Prologue accuse the Muses of being corrupted by?

5. What does Sneer say about Plagiary's play that he has read?

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