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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?

2. Who comments that the under-plot is so well formed that it could have made a tragedy all by itself?

3. In "The Critic", what does the specific satirize?

4. What does the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1 begin with?

5. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?

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 do the minor characters in the play affect the plot? How would the play be different if one or more of these characters were removed?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two characters that act as a foil to one another. In what ways do these characters serve as opposites? Are these differences indicative of good and evil?

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