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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the slang term for Puff's profession?
(a) Dangling.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Scribbling.
(d) Puffing.

2. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?
(a) Being upset by negativity.
(b) Writing about one's life.
(c) Believing praise.
(d) Accepting invitations.

3. What author is alluded to in the Prologue?
(a) Dryden.
(b) Austen.
(c) Marlowe.
(d) Shakespeare.

4. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?
(a) Puff's.
(b) The Vestal Virgins'.
(c) Dangle's.
(d) The Muses'.

5. What does Sneer tell Puff is the only thing that could make him respect Puff more?
(a) Being allowed to attend the rehearsal of his new play.
(b) Being loaned an exorbitant amount of money.
(c) Nothing at all.
(d) Being hired as an actor in his new play.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plagiary say angers him?

2. What does Plagiary say about Sneer in an aside?

3. Who suggests that someone would be doing Plagiary a favor by stealing his ideas?

4. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?

5. As the first scene opens, what are Mr. and Mrs. Dangle doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dangle, Mrs. Dangle, and Sneer say when Plagiary arrives?

2. What does Puff do when he enters?

3. What did Puff begin to feel guilty about, and how did he alleviate his guilt?

4. According to Puff, what is the meaning of the man who appears, shakes his head, and exits in silence?

5. What does Puff tell the actors at the end of the play?

6. What does Puff do, as he grows more upset?

7. What do Sneer and Dangle tell Plagiary about an imaginary critique of his play?

8. Why does Mrs. Dangle ask for Dangle and Sneer's help at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

9. Describe Dangle's argument with his wife during breakfast.

10. Describe Puff's play in terms of the dialogue, emotion, etc.

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