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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Puff clarify during the rehearsal?
(a) What is meant and what is not meant.
(b) That he is a huge fan of the theatre.
(c) What he thinks of Plagiary's work.
(d) That he does not like Dangle.

2. What does the scene contain?
(a) A scandal about Queen Elizabeth.
(b) A love triangle.
(c) Echoes and references to several such scenes in plays of the period.
(d) The message that language is an obscurer of truth.

3. What does Puff plan to do regardless of what happens on stage?
(a) Hold another rehearsal.
(b) Never produce another play.
(c) Hire new actors.
(d) Publish every word of his original text.

4. Who suggests that the under-plot could have made a comedy?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

5. Where is Puff's play set?
(a) In Iceland.
(b) In Italy.
(c) In Spain.
(d) At Tilbury Fort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1 begin with?

2. What does the young man in the scene learn?

3. Who hopes that Puff's play will not contain a scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

4. Who explains the complicated meaning of the old man's actions?

5. What does Puff say will be in his play to Dangle and Sneer's approbation?

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