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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Puff make his living?
(a) By producing plays.
(b) By writing novels about his childhood.
(c) By inventing a series of personal setbacks and writing about them.
(d) By writing plays.

2. Who claims that the theatre's deterioration results from the audience?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

3. Whom does Puff agree to let attend his rehearsal?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

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

5. What does Puff express joy at in extravagant language?
(a) Meeting Sneer.
(b) Having his last rehearsal.
(c) Succeeding at puffing.
(d) Meeting Dangle.

6. Dangle comments that one of Sneer's plays is a tragedy, but Sneer disagrees and tells him it is what kind of play?
(a) A sentimental romance.
(b) A satire.
(c) A historical romance.
(d) A Shakespearean classic.

7. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) The public.

8. What does Sneer say the critic wrote about Plagiary?
(a) That Plagiary is a very good writer.
(b) That Plagiary should stop writing.
(c) That Plagiary is completely uninventive.
(d) That Plagiary should be paid more.

9. Why does Puff object to Sneer's request at first?
(a) He does not like Sneer.
(b) He does not want to be known as the author.
(c) He never objects to Sneer's request.
(d) He is not producing a play.

10. What does Plagiary say angers him?
(a) The belief that negative criticism upsets him.
(b) Dangle pretending to be his friend.
(c) The critic's negative review.
(d) Sneer.

11. What does Dangle suggest he and Sneer do together after Sneer enters the room?
(a) Collaborate on a play.
(b) Watch Plagiary's newest play.
(c) Rent an apartment.
(d) Attend the first performance of Puff's play.

12. Why does Mrs. Dangle claim that Plagiary is a favorite of hers?
(a) Because he is an excellent writer.
(b) Because he is so friendly.
(c) Because he is very attractive.
(d) Because everyone else abuses him.

13. Who refers to a nasty notice about Plagiary's play in an earlier newspaper?
(a) Mrs. Dangle.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

14. What does Mrs. Dangle tell Plagiary about Dangle and Sneer?
(a) She does not tell them anything.
(b) That they were both just saying how much they hated his play.
(c) That they want to support him financially.
(d) That she hates both Dangle and Sneer.

15. What type of play is Sheridan's "The Critic"?
(a) Romance.
(b) History.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Satire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plagiary claim about incident in his play?

2. Where does Puff agree to meet Dangle and Sneer?

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

4. Who speaks in the Prologue?

5. Who is the well-known writer whose pending production Dangle reads about in Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?

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