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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the prompter tell Puff when Puff calls for the beginning of the next scene?
(a) The set is not ready.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The scene is very long.
(d) The actors have all quit.

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

3. Where is Puff's play set?
(a) In Spain.
(b) In Iceland.
(c) At Tilbury Fort.
(d) In Italy.

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

5. 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 approves of the actors.
(c) He fires the actors.
(d) He becomes frustrated.

6. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?
(a) To cancel production.
(b) To change actors for better ones.
(c) To allow Dangle and Sneer to help him edit it.
(d) To allow the actors to cut or change anything they need to.

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

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

9. 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) An affair between the male lead and someone other than the female lead.
(d) A suicide attempt by the female lead.

10. Which character is not as smart as he thinks?
(a) Dangle
(b) Puff
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Sneer

11. Who suggests that the romance in the play is improbable?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

12. Who says that actors are always good judges?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is satirized by the hope for a lack of scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

2. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?

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

4. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?

5. Which character's name signifies his theft of others' ideas?

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