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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sneer tell Puff is the only thing that could make him respect Puff more?
(a) Being allowed to attend the rehearsal of his new play.
(b) Being hired as an actor in his new play.
(c) Being loaned an exorbitant amount of money.
(d) Nothing at all.

2. Whom does the servant announce at the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Sir Fretful Plagiary.

3. Who claims that two people can have the same idea but sometimes one of them just has it first?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

4. What happens during the scene in which the characters talk at length about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) Tilburina goes insane.
(b) The orphan discovers his parentage.
(c) A battle scene.
(d) Nothing because the scene has been cut.

5. Who does not believe that the complicated meaning of the old man's actions was conveyed by his actions?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Mrs. Dangle claim her husband makes himself look ridiculous?

2. Why does Puff claim that he must have a mad scene in his play?

3. What does the prompter tell Puff when Puff calls for the beginning of the next scene?

4. Who says that plays should show things that might happen?

5. What is Plagiary unable to accept?

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