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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks for the music to begin?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

2. What does Puff claim is wonderful?
(a) His original piece of writing.
(b) Dangle and Sneer's attendance at the rehearsal.
(c) The revised play.
(d) The acting during the rehearsal.

3. What do Dangle and Sneer express a hope for after the love scene?
(a) The appearance of Queen Elizabeth and a battle.
(b) A suicide attempt by one of the secondary characters.
(c) A battle scene in which Tilburina dies.
(d) The appearance of King Ferdinand.

4. Who complains that Plagiary insists no playwright but himself is any good?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

5. When does the Servant announce Puff's arrival?
(a) As Puff enters the room.
(b) Before the musicians start playing.
(c) When Dangle enters the room.
(d) After the musicians finish playing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sneer explain that the writer of his moralistic comedy about a reformed housebreaker is determined to use the theatre for?

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

3. What does Dangle say about Sneer before Sneer enters?

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

5. Whom does the governor's daughter fall in love with in Puff's play?

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