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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What author is alluded to in the Prologue?
(a) Marlowe.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dryden.
(d) Austen.

3. As the first scene opens, what are Mr. and Mrs. Dangle doing?
(a) Eating breakfast.
(b) Rehearsing a scene from their play.
(c) Reading a book to their child.
(d) Eating dinner.

4. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?
(a) The Muses'.
(b) Dangle's.
(c) The Vestal Virgins'.
(d) Puff's.

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

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

7. What is Puff a professional at doing?
(a) Improving the words and writings of others.
(b) Acting in tragedies.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Writing plays.

8. When does the Servant announce Puff's arrival?
(a) As Puff enters the room.
(b) When Dangle enters the room.
(c) After the musicians finish playing.
(d) Before the musicians start playing.

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

10. Who asks to accompany Dangle to Puff's rehearsal?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

11. Who asks Plagiary whether he sent his play to any producers?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

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

13. Who hints that they have influenced what is read in papers and public advertisements?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

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

15. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) A group of Italian musicians and an Interpreter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a problem understanding the Italian musicians and the Interpreter?

2. Who announces Sneer's arrival?

3. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?

4. Whom does Mrs. Dangle say laughs at her husband behind his back?

5. What does Plagiary say angers him?

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