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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the slang term for Puff's profession?
(a) Scribbling.
(b) Puffing.
(c) Dangling.
(d) None of the answers is correct.
2. Who asks Plagiary whether he sent his play to any producers?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Mrs. Dangle.
3. Who asks to accompany Dangle to Puff's rehearsal?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.
4. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?
(a) The public.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.
5. 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.
6. What claim does Dangle make in defense of the theatre?
(a) It is important because it reveals the values of the time and its people.
(b) It is important because it shows real life.
(c) It is fun to watch.
(d) It is tiresome and exhausting.
7. Who tells Plagiary that his play seems to lack incident?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.
8. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?
(a) The Vestal Virgins'.
(b) The Muses'.
(c) Dangle's.
(d) Puff's.
9. Who decides to invent something that was said about Plagiary's play?
(a) Sneer and Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Mrs. Dangle.
10. Who suggests that all three men walk to the theatre together?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.
11. What does Plagiary claim about incident in his play?
(a) There is not enough.
(b) There is not enough in the last act.
(c) There is too much in the last act.
(d) There is too much.
12. What is Plagiary unable to accept?
(a) A job from Sneer.
(b) A relationship.
(c) Money from his parents.
(d) True criticism.
13. Whom does Dangle tell his wife to offer refreshments to?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) The musicians.
(d) Plagiary.
14. When Dangle complains about being taken advantage of, what does Sneer remind him?
(a) That he is not being taken advantage of.
(b) That he is not able to do anything anyway.
(c) That he enjoys being in the middle of things.
(d) That he volunteered.
15. Who has a problem understanding the Italian musicians and the Interpreter?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who suggests that the musicians should just do what they came for and play their music?
2. Of what is Plagiary scared?
3. What does Plagiary say angers him?
4. When Mrs. Dangle claims that Plagiary's play is a little long, how does Plagiary respond?
5. What is the driving force of this play?
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