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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claims that Puff's play is brilliant?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

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

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

4. Who comments that Puff's play seems contrived and artificial?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

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

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

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

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

9. What does Puff say will be in his play to Dangle and Sneer's approbation?
(a) An appearance by Queen Elizabeth.
(b) A fiery battle at sea.
(c) None of these is correct.
(d) A love scene.

10. What does the old man in the play do?
(a) Laughs at Puff.
(b) Shake his head and exit the stage in silence.
(c) Explain that the country will never win the war though they are just.
(d) Claims that the country will never win the war because they are not just.

11. Which character's name signifies his theft of others' ideas?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the end of the mad scene lead to?

2. Who has taken advantage of Puff's offer regarding his play?

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

4. Who asks if the scene revealed is the setting for the under-plot?

5. Though Puff says Queen Elizabeth does not appear, what makes it as good as if she did appear?

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