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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 love scene.
(b) A courtroom scene.
(c) The battle at sea scene.
(d) The orphan scene.

2. What do Puff, Dangle, and Sneer do at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Take their seats.
(b) Argue.
(c) They are not present at the beginning of this scene.
(d) Look for one another.

3. Why does Puff claim that he must have a mad scene in his play?
(a) Because all plays have a mad scene.
(b) Because Sneer and Dangle tell him that it is necessary.
(c) Because it is his new invention.
(d) He does not have a mad scene in his play.

4. Who comments that the under-plot is so well formed that it could have made a tragedy all by itself?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Puff.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

5. Whom does Puff join in order to watch the rehearsal of his play?
(a) Plagiary and Puff.
(b) Dangle and Sneer.
(c) Dangle and Puff.
(d) Sneer and Puff.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on not doing?

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

3. What offer does Puff make regarding the play?

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

5. What do Puff, Dangle, and Sneer watch?

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