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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. Whose language obscures who he truly is?
(a) Dangle's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Plagiary's.
(d) Sneer's.

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

3. Who complains that the theatre has deteriorated from a venue suitable for moral messages to a place where people go simply to be entertained?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer and Mrs. Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

4. Who hints that they have influenced what is read in papers and public advertisements?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

5. What does Sneer say the critic wrote about Plagiary?
(a) That Plagiary is a very good writer.
(b) That Plagiary is completely uninventive.
(c) That Plagiary should be paid more.
(d) That Plagiary should stop writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Plagiary respond to the offer to help him send his play to producers?

2. Who claims that the theatre's deterioration results from the audience?

3. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?

4. What does Plagiary say about Sneer in an aside?

5. Who asks Plagiary whether he sent his play to any producers?

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