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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the end of the mad scene lead to?
(a) The promised sea battle.
(b) The old man shaking his head.
(c) The romantic climax.
(d) The appearance of Queen Elizabeth.

2. Who tells Puff that he is interrupting their feelings?
(a) The actress playing Tilburina.
(b) The actor playing the Spanish soldier.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Sneer.

3. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Puff.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Dangle.

4. Who comments on Puff's clever use of words several times during the rehearsal?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

5. What is satirized by the hope for a lack of scandal about Queen Elizabeth?
(a) The views of critics that all plays should contain a scandal.
(b) The views of critics that all plays should contain a romance.
(c) Plays.
(d) Critics.

6. As Puff grows increasing upset, whom does he push?
(a) A secondary character.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) The actress playing Tilburina.

7. In "The Critic", what does the specific satirize?
(a) The general.
(b) Actors.
(c) The detailed.
(d) The critics.

8. Who tells the actors that the rehearsal was good but not quite perfect?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

9. What is Puff's play about?
(a) The French's treachery.
(b) The Spanish Armada.
(c) Julius Caesar.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

10. How does Puff react to the placement of the actor playing the River Thames and the actors playing the river's banks?
(a) He becomes frustrated.
(b) He laughs at the comic effect.
(c) He approves of the actors.
(d) He fires the actors.

11. Who announces that everything is ready for the rehearsal to begin?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) The prompter.

12. How does the prompter say that Puff will find the play?
(a) Extremely short.
(b) Quite short.
(c) Quite long.
(d) Extremely long.

13. Who does Puff order to die repeatedly?
(a) Whiskerandos.
(b) Tilburina.
(c) The governor of the fort.
(d) Sneer.

14. What does the young man in the scene learn?
(a) That he is actually the child of a well-born family rather than an orphan of low, criminal background.
(b) That he will never survive the war.
(c) That he is slowly going insane.
(d) That he is in love with the daughter of the governor of the fort.

15. What does the scene contain?
(a) A love triangle.
(b) The message that language is an obscurer of truth.
(c) Echoes and references to several such scenes in plays of the period.
(d) A scandal about Queen Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Puff say the changes are affecting?

2. Who responds arrogantly to questions and comments during the rehearsal?

3. Who asks for the music to begin?

4. What does Puff say will be in his play to Dangle and Sneer's approbation?

5. What does Puff convince Dangle and Sneer to appear to do?

(see the answer keys)

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