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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the comments about the Spanish Armada and Tilbury refer to?
(a) The military history of Ireland.
(b) Puff's parents.
(c) An incident in British history.
(d) Puff's past.

2. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?
(a) He approves of the actors.
(b) He laughs at the comic effect.
(c) He becomes frustrated.
(d) He fires the actors.

3. What is Puff's play about?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) The Spanish Armada.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) The French's treachery.

4. What does Puff say the changes are affecting?
(a) His writing.
(b) His sleep.
(c) His appetite.
(d) His feelings.

5. Which character's name signifies his work being superfluous?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

6. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on doing?
(a) Becoming friends with Sneer.
(b) Directing his play.
(c) Improving on long established traditions.
(d) Trying to invent something new.

7. Who asks for the music to begin?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

8. What does Puff claim that every tragedy has to have?
(a) A secondary plot with as little connection to the main plot as possible.
(b) An appearance from the current monarch.
(c) A suicide attempt by the female lead.
(d) An affair between the male lead and someone other than the female lead.

9. After the scene depicting the battle at sea, what is contained in the procession that follows?
(a) The Spanish soldiers.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) All of the English rivers.
(d) Dead soldiers.

10. Who says that actors are always good judges?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

11. What does Puff complain about near the end of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The actors' poor acting.
(c) How many cuts there have been.
(d) The length of his play.

12. Who says that plays should show things that might happen?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

13. Who comments that the under-plot is so well formed that it could have made a tragedy all by itself?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

14. What happens during the scene in which the characters talk at length about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) A battle scene.
(b) Nothing because the scene has been cut.
(c) Tilburina goes insane.
(d) The orphan discovers his parentage.

15. Who asks if Puff has introduced a love story into his plot?
(a) Mrs. Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Puff complain that the actors have done?

2. How does Puff's play continue?

3. Who suggests that the under-plot could have made a comedy?

4. What explanations are offered during Puff's play?

5. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?

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