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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. Why does Puff object to Sneer's request at first?
(a) He never objects to Sneer's request.
(b) He is not producing a play.
(c) He does not like Sneer.
(d) He does not want to be known as the author.

2. Why does Dangle interrupt his wife at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) To say that he is hungry.
(b) To ask for some tea.
(c) To say that she is wrong.
(d) To remind her that the children are calling her.

3. Who complains that Plagiary insists no playwright but himself is any good?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

4. Who suggests that the musicians should just do what they came for and play their music?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

5. What does Mrs. Dangle tell Plagiary about Dangle and Sneer?
(a) That they were both just saying how much they hated his play.
(b) That she hates both Dangle and Sneer.
(c) That they want to support him financially.
(d) She does not tell them anything.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dangle tell Plagiary that Sneer never means what he says?

2. Who does Puff invite to the last rehearsal of his play?

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

4. Who says that abuse is always going to appear from somewhere?

5. Who praises Puff's cleverness in making a living at puffing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Puff describe the under-plot of his play?

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

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

5. What does Puff do during Tilburina's mad scene?

6. What does Puff argue for in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

7. What do Dangle and Sneer hope for and how does Puff reply?

8. Why is the play quite short?

9. What happens directly after Puff arrives?

10. What do Dangle, Sneer, and Plagiary discuss in terms of the incidents in Plagiary's play?

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