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

2. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?
(a) He laughs at the comic effect.
(b) He fires the actors.
(c) He approves of the actors.
(d) He becomes frustrated.

3. What does Puff claim that every tragedy has to have?
(a) An appearance from the current monarch.
(b) A secondary plot with as little connection to the main plot as possible.
(c) A suicide attempt by the female lead.
(d) An affair between the male lead and someone other than the female lead.

4. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?
(a) An explanation for writing his play.
(b) An explanation for becoming an actor.
(c) An attempt to convince Dangle to watch the rehearsal.
(d) An attempt to convince Sneer to watch the rehearsal.

5. Who says that actors are always good judges?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is satirized by the hope for a lack of scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

3. Who tells Puff that he is interrupting their feelings?

4. Who claims that Puff's play is brilliant?

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

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