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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Whose point is being argued about actors being "the abstract and brief chronicles of the times"?
(a) Marlowe's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Shakespeare's.
(d) Plagiary's.

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

5. What do the comments about the Spanish Armada and Tilbury refer to?
(a) An incident in British history.
(b) The military history of Ireland.
(c) Puff's parents.
(d) Puff's past.

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

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

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

9. What is Puff's play about?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The French's treachery.
(c) The Spanish Armada.
(d) Julius Caesar.

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

11. What does Puff claim that every tragedy has to have?
(a) An appearance from the current monarch.
(b) A secondary plot with as little connection to the main plot as possible.
(c) A suicide attempt by the female lead.
(d) An affair between the male lead and someone other than the female lead.

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

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

14. What does Puff say the changes are affecting?
(a) His feelings.
(b) His writing.
(c) His sleep.
(d) His appetite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is not as smart as he thinks?

2. Who reassures Puff that the changes made are for the good of the play?

3. Which character's name signifies his tendency of dangling his connections before his friends?

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

5. What explanations are offered during Puff's play?

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