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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comments on the origin of the line that begins the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

2. Which character is not a playwright?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

3. What kind of emotion is presented in Puff's play?
(a) None whatsoever.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Melodramatic.
(d) Underplayed.

4. Who does not believe that the complicated meaning of the old man's actions was conveyed by his actions?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

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

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

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

8. Who comments on Puff's clever use of words several times during the rehearsal?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

9. Who offers explanations of what is going on during the rehearsal?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

10. What explanations are offered during Puff's play?
(a) Explanations of his childhood history.
(b) No explanations are offered during Puff's play.
(c) Explanations of how he wrote the play.
(d) Explanations of the play's context.

11. Who reassures Puff that the changes made are for the good of the play?
(a) The actors.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Dangle.

12. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?
(a) The prompter.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

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

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

15. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?
(a) An attempt to convince Dangle to watch the rehearsal.
(b) An explanation for becoming an actor.
(c) An explanation for writing his play.
(d) An attempt to convince Sneer to watch the rehearsal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who refers to a character that refuses to give an opinion unless he is absolutely sure of the facts?

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

4. Who does Puff order to die repeatedly?

5. Who says that actors are always good judges?

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