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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Puff list examples of?
(a) The friends he has.
(b) The different ways in which puffing is used.
(c) The writers that are not good.
(d) The plays that he has written.

2. After Puff's lengthy speech on puffing, what does Sneer claim that he recognizes the importance of?
(a) Puff's last rehearsal.
(b) Puff's profession.
(c) Sneer's family life.
(d) The theatre.

3. What claim does Dangle make in defense of the theatre?
(a) It is fun to watch.
(b) It is tiresome and exhausting.
(c) It is important because it shows real life.
(d) It is important because it reveals the values of the time and its people.

4. Who does Dangle say can give Plagiary good criticism if he wants it?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Mrs. Dangle.
(d) Dangle.

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

6. Where does Puff agree to meet Dangle and Sneer?
(a) At the theatre.
(b) At Dangle's house.
(c) At the corner between Dangle's house and the theatre.
(d) At Sneer's house.

7. When Plagiary arrives, what do Dangle and Sneer tell him?
(a) How much they like his play.
(b) How much they hate his play.
(c) How much they want to see Puff's new play.
(d) How tired they are.

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

9. Whom does Dangle tell his wife to offer refreshments to?
(a) The musicians.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

10. Whom does Puff agree to let attend his rehearsal?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

11. What does Sneer explain that the writer of his moralistic comedy about a reformed housebreaker is determined to use the theatre for?
(a) To challenge and change the law.
(b) To make a lot of money.
(c) To reunite with his parents.
(d) To create a new art form.

12. Where was "The Critic" first performed?
(a) Three Theatres.
(b) The Globe Theatre.
(c) Drury Lane Theatre.
(d) The Theater of London.

13. Why does Dangle interrupt his wife at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) To say that she is wrong.
(b) To remind her that the children are calling her.
(c) To ask for some tea.
(d) To say that he is hungry.

14. Why does Puff object to Sneer's request at first?
(a) He is not producing a play.
(b) He does not want to be known as the author.
(c) He never objects to Sneer's request.
(d) He does not like Sneer.

15. To what does Sneer compare the modesty of audiences?
(a) The true modesty of nuns.
(b) The false modesty of police officers.
(c) The false modesty of prostitutes.
(d) The false modesty of teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that all three men walk to the theatre together?

2. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?

3. How did Puff make his living?

4. Who says more incidents are needed in the fifth act of Plagiary's play?

5. Who complains that Plagiary insists no playwright but himself is any good?

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