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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says that abuse is always going to appear from somewhere?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

2. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?
(a) Being upset by negativity.
(b) Believing praise.
(c) Accepting invitations.
(d) Writing about one's life.

3. What is the driving force of this play?
(a) Pretensions of people who think they know more than they do.
(b) The friendship between two married couples.
(c) The frustrations of an uninspired playwright.
(d) The love between a man and a woman.

4. How does Plagiary respond to the offer to help him send his play to producers?
(a) He refuses the offer because he does not trust it.
(b) He does not intend to send his play to producers.
(c) He says he has already sent it out.
(d) He accepts the offer.

5. Who speaks in the Prologue?
(a) The Honourable Richard Fitzpatrick.
(b) The main actor.
(c) Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
(d) William Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Plagiary that his play seems to lack incident?

2. Who decides to invent something that was said about Plagiary's play?

3. Who says more incidents are needed in the fifth act of Plagiary's play?

4. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?

5. Who complains that the theatre has deteriorated from a venue suitable for moral messages to a place where people go simply to be entertained?

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