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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose language obscures who he truly is?
(a) Sneer's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Dangle's.
(d) Plagiary's.

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

3. As the first scene opens, what are Mr. and Mrs. Dangle doing?
(a) Eating dinner.
(b) Rehearsing a scene from their play.
(c) Reading a book to their child.
(d) Eating breakfast.

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

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

6. Why does Dangle tell Plagiary that Sneer never means what he says?
(a) To anger Sneer.
(b) Because it is true.
(c) To prevent an argument.
(d) To be funny.

7. What is Puff a professional at doing?
(a) Improving the words and writings of others.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Acting in tragedies.
(d) Writing plays.

8. What does Sneer say about Plagiary's play that he has read?
(a) How awful it is.
(b) That Sneer wants to produce it.
(c) That Plagiary should write a sequel.
(d) How wonderful it was.

9. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?
(a) Sneer.
(b) A group of Italian musicians and an Interpreter.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

10. What does Sheridan's play satirize?
(a) Plays.
(b) Friends.
(c) Playwrights.
(d) Critics.

11. With what does Mrs. Dangle claim her husband makes himself look ridiculous?
(a) His hairpiece.
(b) His lack of style.
(c) His passion for theatre.
(d) His womanizing.

12. Whose ideas are as empty as his words?
(a) Plagiary's.
(b) Puff's.
(c) Dangle's.
(d) Sneer's.

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

14. Who has a problem understanding the Italian musicians and the Interpreter?
(a) Puff.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Mrs. Dangle.

15. Whose purity is referred to in the Prologue?
(a) Puff's.
(b) The Vestal Virgins'.
(c) The Muses'.
(d) Dangle's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Plagiary claim is mere vanity?

2. What is Plagiary unable to accept?

3. Who asks for Sneer and Dangle's help at the beginning of Act 1, Scene 2?

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

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

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