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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Puff convince Dangle and Sneer to appear to do?
(a) Attend the last rehearsal of his play.
(b) Go home early.
(c) Go to dinner with him.
(d) Alter their opinions.

2. 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.

3. Who claims that Puff's play is brilliant?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Puff.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Plagiary.

4. Who exclaims over the changes in Puff's play?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Puff.
(d) Sneer.

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

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

7. At the end of the play, what does Puff claim will happen the next day?
(a) The play is canceled.
(b) He will never write again.
(c) They will have another rehearsal.
(d) He is no longer friends with Sneer and Dangle.

8. Which character is not a playwright?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

9. Who explains the complicated meaning of the old man's actions?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

10. What does Puff claim about the appearance of the line that begins the second scene of Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) It is just a coincidence.
(b) It is a classic.
(c) Puff changes the line.
(d) It is an important argument about theatre.

11. What does the old man in the play do?
(a) Claims that the country will never win the war because they are not just.
(b) Laughs at Puff.
(c) Explain that the country will never win the war though they are just.
(d) Shake his head and exit the stage in silence.

12. How is the exposition handled in Puff's play?
(a) Neither badly nor brilliantly.
(b) Very well.
(c) Badly.
(d) There is no exposition in Puff's play.

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

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

15. What should the point about actors be applied to, according to Puff?
(a) Novels.
(b) Friends.
(c) Plays.
(d) Actors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comments on how the under-plot had completely nothing to do with the main plot?

2. What does Puff plan to do regardless of what happens on stage?

3. Who tells the actors that the rehearsal was good but not quite perfect?

4. Which character's name signifies his tendency of dangling his connections before his friends?

5. How does the prompter say that Puff will find the play?

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