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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character's name signifies his attitude toward other playwrights?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

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

3. Who has a mad scene in Puff's play?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Whiskerandos.
(d) Tilburina.

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

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

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

7. How does Dangle respond to Puff's lament?
(a) He says it is a pity.
(b) He refuses to heed Puff.
(c) He walks out of the theatre.
(d) He laughs at him.

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

9. When does Puff become upset during the rehearsal?
(a) During the introduction to the main character.
(b) During the climax of the love scene.
(c) During the prologue.
(d) During the denouement of the battle scene.

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

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

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

13. At the end of the play, what does Puff claim will happen the next day?
(a) They will have another rehearsal.
(b) The play is canceled.
(c) He is no longer friends with Sneer and Dangle.
(d) He will never write again.

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

15. In "The Critic", what does the specific satirize?
(a) The critics.
(b) The general.
(c) The detailed.
(d) Actors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young man in the scene learn?

2. Who writes the play within "The Critic"?

3. Who responds arrogantly to questions and comments during the rehearsal?

4. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on not doing?

5. Where is Puff's play set?

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