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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. What does Puff say that plays should not show?
(a) Things that are unrealistic.
(b) Plays should show anything the writer wants.
(c) Things that happen every day.
(d) Things that happen between families.

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

3. Who worries that they have been too hard on Plagiary?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Puff.

4. Who hopes that Puff's play will not contain a scandal about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

5. What does Puff use his argument in Act 2, Scene 1 for?
(a) An attempt to convince Sneer to watch the rehearsal.
(b) An attempt to convince Dangle to watch the rehearsal.
(c) An explanation for writing his play.
(d) An explanation for becoming an actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of play is Sheridan's "The Critic"?

2. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?

3. Who claims that the theatre's deterioration results from the audience?

4. Who offers explanations of what is going on during the rehearsal?

5. Who suggests that all three men walk to the theatre together?

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