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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the comments about the Spanish Armada and Tilbury refer to?
(a) Puff's past.
(b) The military history of Ireland.
(c) An incident in British history.
(d) Puff's parents.

2. Who suggests that the under-plot could have made a comedy?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

3. What does Puff complain about near the end of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) The actors' poor acting.
(b) The length of his play.
(c) How many cuts there have been.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does the scene contain?
(a) A scandal about Queen Elizabeth.
(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 love triangle.

5. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?
(a) Marlowe's.
(b) Shakespeare's.
(c) Puff's.
(d) Plagiary's.

6. Whom does Puff join in order to watch the rehearsal of his play?
(a) Sneer and Puff.
(b) Plagiary and Puff.
(c) Dangle and Sneer.
(d) Dangle and Puff.

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

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

9. Who asks if the scene revealed is the setting for the under-plot?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Puff.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Dangle.

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

11. Who explains the complicated meaning of the old man's actions?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

12. Who asks for the music to begin?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

13. Who hopes that Puff's play will not contain a scandal about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

14. As Puff grows increasing upset, whom does he push?
(a) Dangle.
(b) A secondary character.
(c) Sneer.
(d) The actress playing Tilburina.

15. What does the curtain reveal when it rises?
(a) A courtroom scene.
(b) The orphan scene.
(c) The battle at sea scene.
(d) The love scene.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Puff become upset during the rehearsal?

2. Which character's name signifies his tendency of dangling his connections before his friends?

3. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?

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

5. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?

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