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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mrs. Dangle claims that Plagiary's play is a little long, how does Plagiary respond?
(a) He claims that it is actually short.
(b) He completely ignores her.
(c) He storms out of the room.
(d) He agrees with her.

2. Who suggests that the musicians should just do what they came for and play their music?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Dangle.

3. What is the slang term for Puff's profession?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Dangling.
(c) Puffing.
(d) Scribbling.

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

5. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?
(a) Writing about one's life.
(b) Being upset by negativity.
(c) Believing praise.
(d) Accepting invitations.

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

7. Who is the well-known writer whose pending production Dangle reads about in Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

8. Who suggests that all three men walk to the theatre together?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

9. Who asks for Sneer and Dangle's help at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Mrs. Dangle.

10. Who has a problem understanding the Italian musicians and the Interpreter?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Mrs. Dangle.
(d) Puff.

11. What does Sheridan's play satirize?
(a) Playwrights.
(b) Friends.
(c) Plays.
(d) Critics.

12. When Plagiary asks if Dangle and Sneer like his play, what does Sneer say?
(a) That he hates it.
(b) That he loves it.
(c) That he did not read it.
(d) That he used it in his fire.

13. Who refers to a nasty notice about Plagiary's play in an earlier newspaper?
(a) Mrs. Dangle.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

14. Whose ideas are as empty as his words?
(a) Dangle's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Sneer's.
(d) Plagiary's.

15. What does Plagiary say about Sneer in an aside?
(a) How he is related to Sneer.
(b) How rich Sneer is.
(c) How much he dislikes Sneer.
(d) He does not speak about Sneer in an aside.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the driving force of this play?

2. Who worries that they have been too hard on Plagiary?

3. Who speaks in the Prologue?

4. Why does Dangle tell Plagiary that Sneer never means what he says?

5. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?

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