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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Puff complain that the actors have done?
(a) Showed up late to rehearsal.
(b) Ruined his play.
(c) Lengthened his play drastically.
(d) Shockingly altered his play.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on not doing?
(a) Directing his play.
(b) Trying to invent something new.
(c) Improving on long established traditions.
(d) Becoming friends with Sneer.

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

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

11. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on doing?
(a) Becoming friends with Sneer.
(b) Directing his play.
(c) Improving on long established traditions.
(d) Trying to invent something new.

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

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

14. Who is making an argument at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

15. 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 affair between the male lead and someone other than the female lead.
(c) A suicide attempt by the female lead.
(d) An appearance from the current monarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?

2. Who comments that Puff's play seems contrived and artificial?

3. Who says that actors are always good judges?

4. What does Puff say the changes are affecting?

5. What does the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1 begin with?

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