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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character's name signifies his attitude toward other playwrights?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

2. What does Puff say that plays should not show?
(a) Things that are unrealistic.
(b) Things that happen every day.
(c) Plays should show anything the writer wants.
(d) Things that happen between families.

3. Who worries that they have been too hard on Plagiary?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

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

5. 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) Being allowed to attend the rehearsal of his new play.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Being loaned an exorbitant amount of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Puff's play about?

2. Who is the well-known writer whose pending production Dangle reads about in Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?

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

4. What does Mrs. Dangle tell Plagiary about Dangle and Sneer?

5. Whom does Dangle tell his wife to offer refreshments to?

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