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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. Who speaks in the Prologue?
(a) The main actor.
(b) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(c) The Honourable Richard Fitzpatrick.
(d) William Shakespeare.

2. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?
(a) A satire.
(b) A sentimental romance.
(c) A historical romance.
(d) A Shakespearean classic.

3. What does Plagiary claim about incident in his play?
(a) There is too much in the last act.
(b) There is not enough.
(c) There is not enough in the last act.
(d) There is too much.

4. Who comments that Plagiary's humility is false?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

5. Who claims that the theatre's deterioration results from the audience?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Prologue accuse the Muses of being corrupted by?

2. Who has a problem understanding the Italian musicians and the Interpreter?

3. What is language defined as in Act 1, Scene 2?

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

5. Whose ideas are as empty as his words?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Puff respond to Dangle and Sneer's questions and comments?

2. Describe the conversation between Dangle, Sneer, and Puff regarding Puff's play.

3. What does Puff do during the rehearsal of his play?

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

5. During and after the scene about the orphan, what does Puff say about this scene?

6. When the curtain rises in Act 3, Scene 1, what is revealed and what does Puff say?

7. When the prompter announces the beginning of the rehearsal, what does he warn Puff about?

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

9. How do Puff and Dangle comment on the romantic complications in the play?

10. At the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2, what does the servant tell Dangle, and how does Sneer react?

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