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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 goes out to greet the new guests near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

2. What author is alluded to in the Prologue?
(a) Austen.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Dryden.

3. When Plagiary arrives, what do Dangle and Sneer tell him?
(a) How much they hate his play.
(b) How much they want to see Puff's new play.
(c) How tired they are.
(d) How much they like his play.

4. Who decides to invent something that was said about Plagiary's play?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Sneer and Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that someone would be doing Plagiary a favor by stealing his ideas?

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

3. What is language defined as in Act 1, Scene 2?

4. What does Dangle say about Sneer before Sneer enters?

5. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?

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