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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) The prompter.

2. What does Puff plan to do regardless of what happens on stage?
(a) Hire new actors.
(b) Publish every word of his original text.
(c) Hold another rehearsal.
(d) Never produce another play.

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

4. Which character's name signifies his theft of others' ideas?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

5. Who comments on Puff's clever use of words several times during the rehearsal?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

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

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

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

9. Which character is not a playwright?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

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

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

12. What explanations are offered during Puff's play?
(a) Explanations of the play's context.
(b) Explanations of his childhood history.
(c) Explanations of how he wrote the play.
(d) No explanations are offered during Puff's play.

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

14. How does Puff's play continue?
(a) With the scene about the orphan learning about his true parentage.
(b) With the old man who shakes his head.
(c) With romantic complications between Tilburina and Whiskerandos.
(d) Puff's play ends with all of the actors quitting.

15. Which character is not as smart as he thinks?
(a) Puff
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Sneer
(d) Dangle

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks if Puff has introduced a love story into his plot?

2. Though Puff says Queen Elizabeth does not appear, what makes it as good as if she did appear?

3. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?

4. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?

5. What does Puff clarify during the rehearsal?

(see the answer keys)

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