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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. What type of play is Sheridan's "The Critic"?
(a) Romance.
(b) History.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Satire.

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

3. What does Plagiary say angers him?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle pretending to be his friend.
(c) The belief that negative criticism upsets him.
(d) The critic's negative review.

4. 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 and Mrs. Dangle.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

5. Who speaks in the Prologue?
(a) The Honourable Richard Fitzpatrick.
(b) The main actor.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Sneer compare the modesty of audiences?

2. Who hints that they have influenced what is read in papers and public advertisements?

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

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

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

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