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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who tells the actors that the rehearsal was good but not quite perfect?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

4. Who comments on the origin of the line that begins the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

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

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

7. Who refers to a character that refuses to give an opinion unless he is absolutely sure of the facts?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

8. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

9. What does Puff claim about the appearance of the line that begins the second scene of Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) It is an important argument about theatre.
(b) It is a classic.
(c) Puff changes the line.
(d) It is just a coincidence.

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

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

12. Why does Puff claim that he must have a mad scene in his play?
(a) Because Sneer and Dangle tell him that it is necessary.
(b) Because all plays have a mad scene.
(c) He does not have a mad scene in his play.
(d) Because it is his new invention.

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

14. What directions does Puff give the actors during the rehearsal?
(a) When to speak and when to die.
(b) When to quit.
(c) To turn left or right.
(d) Where to move and how to speak.

15. Who offers explanations of what is going on during the rehearsal?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who has taken advantage of Puff's offer regarding his play?

3. Who hopes that Puff's play will not contain a scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

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

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

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