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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Puff, Dangle, and Sneer watch?
(a) The actors in Puff's play rehearse.
(b) They are too busy arguing to watch anything.
(c) The actors quitting.
(d) Puff's family arriving.

3. At the end of the play, what does Puff claim will happen the next day?
(a) He will never write again.
(b) The play is canceled.
(c) They will have another rehearsal.
(d) He is no longer friends with Sneer and Dangle.

4. Whom does the governor's daughter fall in love with in Puff's play?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) William Raleigh.
(c) Sneer.
(d) The son of a Spanish admiral.

5. Which character's name signifies his attitude toward other playwrights?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

6. What does Puff convince Dangle and Sneer to appear to do?
(a) Go home early.
(b) Attend the last rehearsal of his play.
(c) Go to dinner with him.
(d) Alter their opinions.

7. How is the exposition handled in Puff's play?
(a) Very well.
(b) Badly.
(c) Neither badly nor brilliantly.
(d) There is no exposition in Puff's play.

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

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

10. What does Puff complain that the actors have done?
(a) Shockingly altered his play.
(b) Lengthened his play drastically.
(c) Ruined his play.
(d) Showed up late to rehearsal.

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

12. Which character's name signifies his tendency of dangling his connections before his friends?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

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

14. What does Puff say that plays should not show?
(a) Things that happen every day.
(b) Things that are unrealistic.
(c) Plays should show anything the writer wants.
(d) Things that happen between families.

15. How does the prompter say that Puff will find the play?
(a) Quite long.
(b) Extremely long.
(c) Extremely short.
(d) Quite short.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during the scene in which the characters talk at length about Queen Elizabeth?

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

3. Which character is not a playwright?

4. Who claims that two people can have the same idea but sometimes one of them just has it first?

5. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?

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