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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Puff a professional at doing?

2. What author is alluded to in the Prologue?

3. Whom does Dangle tell his wife to offer refreshments to?

4. When does the Servant announce Puff's arrival?

5. Why does Dangle interrupt his wife at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the curtain rises in Act 3, Scene 1, what is revealed and what does Puff say?

2. What does Puff use his argument as?

3. Why does Puff refuse to walk to the theatre with Dangle and Sneer?

4. What does Dangle say about the romance in Puff's play, and how does Puff respond?

5. Describe the beginning of Dangle and Sneer's conversation regarding Sneer's plays.

6. What does Puff talk about at great length?

7. How does Puff describe the under-plot of his play?

8. Describe the conversation between Dangle, Sneer, and Puff regarding Puff's play.

9. What does Dangle ask Plagiary about his play, and how does Plagiary respond?

10. What do Dangle, Sneer and Plagiary argue about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think each character's negative aspects and self-importance affects the play as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

How is foreshadowing used in "The Critic"? Choose one major instance of foreshadowing and follow it through the play, finishing with how the event is fulfilled.

Essay Topic 3

How are the different symbols used throughout the play to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

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