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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. Who says more incidents are needed in the fifth act of Plagiary's play?
(a) Mrs. Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

2. What is the driving force of this play?
(a) Pretensions of people who think they know more than they do.
(b) The friendship between two married couples.
(c) The love between a man and a woman.
(d) The frustrations of an uninspired playwright.

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

4. Why does Dangle tell Plagiary that Sneer never means what he says?
(a) Because it is true.
(b) To be funny.
(c) To prevent an argument.
(d) To anger Sneer.

5. Who tells Puff that his identity has already been published?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dangle suggest he and Sneer do together after Sneer enters the room?

2. What is Plagiary unable to accept?

3. Who decides to invent something that was said about Plagiary's play?

4. What is the slang term for Puff's profession?

5. What does Plagiary claim he is glad when a wise critic does?

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