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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who responds arrogantly to questions and comments during the rehearsal?
(a) Dangle.
(b) Sneer.
(c) Puff.
(d) Plagiary.

3. What does the curtain reveal when it rises?
(a) The love scene.
(b) The orphan scene.
(c) The battle at sea scene.
(d) A courtroom scene.

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

5. Who has taken advantage of Puff's offer regarding his play?
(a) Plagiary.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Sneer.
(d) The actors.

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

7. What does Puff pride himself on?
(a) His romantic inspiration.
(b) His disconnected under-plot.
(c) How well he captured the truth of life.
(d) The cleverness of his plot twists.

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

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

10. Though Puff says Queen Elizabeth does not appear, what makes it as good as if she did appear?
(a) The fact that she is dead during the play's action.
(b) The fact that she speaks from offstage.
(c) The fact that she is frequently spoken about.
(d) Queen Elizabeth is in the play.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Puff that he is interrupting their feelings?

2. Who suggests that the under-plot could have made a comedy?

3. Who does not believe that the complicated meaning of the old man's actions was conveyed by his actions?

4. What does the old man in the play do?

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

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