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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Puff plan to do regardless of what happens on stage?
(a) Hold another rehearsal.
(b) Hire new actors.
(c) Never produce another play.
(d) Publish every word of his original text.

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

3. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?
(a) To change actors for better ones.
(b) To allow the actors to cut or change anything they need to.
(c) To allow Dangle and Sneer to help him edit it.
(d) To cancel production.

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

5. When Dangle complains about being taken advantage of, what does Sneer remind him?
(a) That he is not being taken advantage of.
(b) That he is not able to do anything anyway.
(c) That he enjoys being in the middle of things.
(d) That he volunteered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Plagiary that his play seems to lack incident?

2. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?

3. Who responds arrogantly to questions and comments during the rehearsal?

4. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on doing?

5. What does Puff claim that every tragedy has to have?

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