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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comments that Puff's play seems contrived and artificial?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

2. What do Puff, Dangle, and Sneer do at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Look for one another.
(b) Take their seats.
(c) They are not present at the beginning of this scene.
(d) Argue.

3. Who suggests that the romance in the play is improbable?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

4. Who does Puff order to die repeatedly?
(a) Whiskerandos.
(b) Tilburina.
(c) The governor of the fort.
(d) Sneer.

5. What consists of bad poetry in Puff's play?
(a) The songs.
(b) The dialogue.
(c) The narration.
(d) The soliloquies.

6. Who tells Puff that he is interrupting their feelings?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) The actor playing the Spanish soldier.
(d) The actress playing Tilburina.

7. Who tells Puff to stop interrupting the rehearsal?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

8. What does Puff pride himself on?
(a) The cleverness of his plot twists.
(b) How well he captured the truth of life.
(c) His disconnected under-plot.
(d) His romantic inspiration.

9. What do Dangle and Sneer express a hope for after the love scene?
(a) A suicide attempt by one of the secondary characters.
(b) A battle scene in which Tilburina dies.
(c) The appearance of Queen Elizabeth and a battle.
(d) The appearance of King Ferdinand.

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

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

12. What does the old man in the play do?
(a) Shake his head and exit the stage in silence.
(b) Claims that the country will never win the war because they are not just.
(c) Laughs at Puff.
(d) Explain that the country will never win the war though they are just.

13. What does the scene contain?
(a) A love triangle.
(b) The message that language is an obscurer of truth.
(c) Echoes and references to several such scenes in plays of the period.
(d) A scandal about Queen Elizabeth.

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

15. Though Puff says Queen Elizabeth does not appear, what makes it as good as if she did appear?
(a) The fact that she speaks from offstage.
(b) Queen Elizabeth is in the play.
(c) The fact that she is frequently spoken about.
(d) The fact that she is dead during the play's action.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that plays should show things that might happen?

2. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?

3. Who is making an argument at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

4. How is the exposition handled in Puff's play?

5. Who reassures Puff that the changes made are for the good of the play?

(see the answer keys)

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