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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the curtain reveal when it rises?
(a) The orphan scene.
(b) The love scene.
(c) The battle at sea scene.
(d) A courtroom scene.

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

3. What directions does Puff give the actors during the rehearsal?
(a) When to speak and when to die.
(b) When to quit.
(c) Where to move and how to speak.
(d) To turn left or right.

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

5. What does the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1 begin with?
(a) The orphan scene.
(b) The romantic climax.
(c) A battle at sea.
(d) A line from Shakespeare's "Othello".

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks if Puff has introduced a love story into his plot?

2. Who asks if the scene revealed is the setting for the under-plot?

3. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?

4. How does the prompter say that Puff will find the play?

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

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