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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 reveals the values of the time and its people.
(d) It is important because it shows real life.

2. What kind of producers do Dangle, Sneer and Plagiary question the wisdom of sending a play to?
(a) Producers who write plays themselves.
(b) Producers who they know.
(c) Producers who need money.
(d) Producers who make too much money.

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

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

5. Whom does Mrs. Dangle say laughs at her husband behind his back?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Everyone that they know.
(c) Theatre people and non-theatre people alike.
(d) Plagiary.

6. When Puff changes his way of making a living, what does he turn to?
(a) His talents in acting and theatrics.
(b) His training as a carriage driver.
(c) His talents for word usage and manipulation.
(d) His training as a chef.

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

8. Who worries that they have been too hard on Plagiary?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

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

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

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

12. Who tells Plagiary that his play seems to lack incident?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Mrs. Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

13. How did Puff make his living?
(a) By writing novels about his childhood.
(b) By producing plays.
(c) By writing plays.
(d) By inventing a series of personal setbacks and writing about them.

14. What is Plagiary unable to accept?
(a) Money from his parents.
(b) A job from Sneer.
(c) A relationship.
(d) True criticism.

15. Why does Dangle tell Plagiary that Sneer never means what he says?
(a) To be funny.
(b) To prevent an argument.
(c) Because it is true.
(d) To anger Sneer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Puff agree to meet Dangle and Sneer?

2. When Mrs. Dangle claims that Plagiary's play is a little long, how does Plagiary respond?

3. How does Plagiary respond to the offer to help him send his play to producers?

4. What does Plagiary claim he is glad when a wise critic does?

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

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