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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is satirized by the hope for a lack of scandal about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) Critics.
(b) Plays.
(c) The views of critics that all plays should contain a romance.
(d) The views of critics that all plays should contain a scandal.

6. Who reassures Puff that the changes made are for the good of the play?
(a) The actors.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

7. What does the actor playing Whiskerandos tell Puff?
(a) That he needs better chemistry with Tilburina.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he quits.
(d) That he cannot die all night.

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

9. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?
(a) An attempt to convince Sneer to watch the rehearsal.
(b) An attempt to convince Dangle to watch the rehearsal.
(c) An explanation for writing his play.
(d) An explanation for becoming an actor.

10. Who claims that two people can have the same idea but sometimes one of them just has it first?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

11. 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.

12. Who writes the play within "The Critic"?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

13. What does the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1 begin with?
(a) The romantic climax.
(b) The orphan scene.
(c) A line from Shakespeare's "Othello".
(d) A battle at sea.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on doing?

2. What does the scene contain?

3. What does Puff claim about the appearance of the line that begins the second scene of Act 3, Scene 1?

4. What does Puff convince Dangle and Sneer to appear to do?

5. Who exclaims over the changes in Puff's play?

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