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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. How does Plagiary treat the negative comments about his work?
(a) He starts crying.
(b) As a joke.
(c) Very seriously.
(d) He decides never to write again.

2. Who suggests that someone would be doing Plagiary a favor by stealing his ideas?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

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

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

5. 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 too much.
(d) There is not enough in the last act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks for Sneer and Dangle's help at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

2. When Mrs. Dangle claims that Plagiary's play is a little long, how does Plagiary respond?

3. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?

4. After Puff's lengthy speech on puffing, what does Sneer claim that he recognizes the importance of?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sneer say about audiences?

2. What fear does Plagiary express, and how does Sneer mock him?

3. How do Dangle and Sneer react to the scene about the orphan?

4. Describe Puff's conversation with the prompter at the end of Act 2, Scene 2.

5. What is Puff a professional at?

6. What two opinions does Mrs. Dangle give of Plagiary's play?

7. What does each of the characters (Dangle, Mrs. Dangle, and Sneer) believe is the cause of the deterioration of theatre?

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

9. What is a satire, and who is the target of this particular satire?

10. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on?

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