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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Puff changes his way of making a living, what does he turn to?
(a) His talents in acting and theatrics.
(b) His talents for word usage and manipulation.
(c) His training as a carriage driver.
(d) His training as a chef.

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

3. What does Sneer tell Puff is the only thing that could make him respect Puff more?
(a) Being hired as an actor in his new play.
(b) Nothing at all.
(c) Being allowed to attend the rehearsal of his new play.
(d) Being loaned an exorbitant amount of money.

4. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) A group of Italian musicians and an Interpreter.
(d) Sneer.

5. Of what is Plagiary scared?
(a) People laughing at his work.
(b) People stealing his ideas.
(c) People thinking that he is a good writer.
(d) People hating him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?

2. What does Sneer say the critic wrote about Plagiary?

3. Who speaks in the Prologue?

4. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?

5. Who complains that the theatre has deteriorated from a venue suitable for moral messages to a place where people go simply to be entertained?

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