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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose language obscures who he truly is?
(a) Puff's.
(b) Plagiary's.
(c) Sneer's.
(d) Dangle's.

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

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

6. Who praises Puff's cleverness in making a living at puffing?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

7. What is Dangle's only interest?
(a) Theatre.
(b) Artwork.
(c) Writing.
(d) His wife.

8. Who tells Puff that his identity has already been published?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

9. Who complains that Plagiary insists no playwright but himself is any good?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

10. Who comments that Plagiary's humility is false?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

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

12. Who decides to invent something that was said about Plagiary's play?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer and Dangle.

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 say that he is hungry.
(c) To remind her that the children are calling her.
(d) To ask for some tea.

14. How does Plagiary respond to the offer to help him send his play to producers?
(a) He refuses the offer because he does not trust it.
(b) He does not intend to send his play to producers.
(c) He says he has already sent it out.
(d) He accepts the offer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Puff invite to the last rehearsal of his play?

2. When Puff changes his way of making a living, what does he turn to?

3. What does Sneer tell Puff is the only thing that could make him respect Puff more?

4. Whom does Puff agree to let attend his rehearsal?

5. What does Sneer say the critic wrote about Plagiary?

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