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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the prompter tell Puff when Puff calls for the beginning of the next scene?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The scene is very long.
(c) The actors have all quit.
(d) The set is not ready.

2. Who suggests that the under-plot could have made a comedy?
(a) Puff.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

3. Who says that plays should show things that might happen?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

4. Which character is not as smart as he thinks?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Puff
(c) Sneer
(d) Dangle

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

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

7. Who has a mad scene in Puff's play?
(a) Whiskerandos.
(b) Tilburina.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

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

9. What does Puff say will be in his play to Dangle and Sneer's approbation?
(a) None of these is correct.
(b) A love scene.
(c) A fiery battle at sea.
(d) An appearance by Queen Elizabeth.

10. Who claims that two people can have the same idea but sometimes one of them just has it first?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Puff.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Plagiary.

11. What does Puff plan to do regardless of what happens on stage?
(a) Publish every word of his original text.
(b) Never produce another play.
(c) Hire new actors.
(d) Hold another rehearsal.

12. Who comments on the origin of the line that begins the second scene in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Puff.

13. Which character's name signifies his theft of others' ideas?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Puff.
(d) Dangle.

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

15. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on doing?
(a) Trying to invent something new.
(b) Directing his play.
(c) Becoming friends with Sneer.
(d) Improving on long established traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hopes that Puff's play will not contain a scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

2. What consists of bad poetry in Puff's play?

3. What is satirized by the hope for a lack of scandal about Queen Elizabeth?

4. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on not doing?

5. What does Puff claim is wonderful?

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