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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?
(a) To cancel production.
(b) To change actors for better ones.
(c) To allow the actors to cut or change anything they need to.
(d) To allow Dangle and Sneer to help him edit it.

2. When does Puff become upset during the rehearsal?
(a) During the denouement of the battle scene.
(b) During the climax of the love scene.
(c) During the prologue.
(d) During the introduction to the main character.

3. How does Puff respond to the question of whether a love story has been introduced into his plot?
(a) There was nothing easier to do.
(b) He did not include a love story.
(c) He objects to the question because his play is about war.
(d) He says he did include a love story.

4. Which character is not as smart as he thinks?
(a) Puff
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Sneer
(d) Dangle

5. Whom does the governor's daughter fall in love with in Puff's play?
(a) Sneer.
(b) William Raleigh.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) The son of a Spanish admiral.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the scene depicting the battle at sea, what is contained in the procession that follows?

2. What does Puff claim about the appearance of the line that begins the second scene of Act 3, Scene 1?

3. How does Dangle respond to Puff's lament?

4. What should the point about actors be applied to, according to Puff?

5. Who comments on Puff's clever use of words several times during the rehearsal?

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