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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?
(a) He laughs at the comic effect.
(b) He fires the actors.
(c) He approves of the actors.
(d) He becomes frustrated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who has taken advantage of Puff's offer regarding his play?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) The actors.
(d) Plagiary.

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

11. Who responds arrogantly to questions and comments during the rehearsal?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

12. Who says that plays should show things that might happen?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

13. Though Puff says Queen Elizabeth does not appear, what makes it as good as if she did appear?
(a) The fact that she is frequently spoken about.
(b) The fact that she speaks from offstage.
(c) The fact that she is dead during the play's action.
(d) Queen Elizabeth is in the play.

14. 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.

15. Who tells Puff that he is interrupting their feelings?
(a) The actress playing Tilburina.
(b) Sneer.
(c) The actor playing the Spanish soldier.
(d) Plagiary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What directions does Puff give the actors during the rehearsal?

2. Which character's name signifies his work being superfluous?

3. Who offers explanations of what is going on during the rehearsal?

4. How does Puff's play continue?

5. Who comments on the origin of the line that begins the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1?

(see the answer keys)

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