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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Puff make his living?
(a) By producing plays.
(b) By writing plays.
(c) By inventing a series of personal setbacks and writing about them.
(d) By writing novels about his childhood.

2. What does Plagiary claim about incident in his play?
(a) There is not enough.
(b) There is too much.
(c) There is not enough in the last act.
(d) There is too much in the last act.

3. What does Plagiary claim he is glad when a wise critic does?
(a) Lies about liking his play.
(b) Points out his play's flaws.
(c) Laughs at him.
(d) Steals his work.

4. Who suggests that all three men walk to the theatre together?
(a) Puff.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Dangle.
(d) Sneer.

5. Whom does Mrs. Dangle claim is the only critic that really matters for those working in the theatre?
(a) The public.
(b) Plagiary.
(c) Sneer.
(d) Dangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the slang term for Puff's profession?

2. Whose arrival does the servant announce near the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 2?

3. What does Plagiary say angers him?

4. Who tells Puff that his identity has already been published?

5. When Mrs. Dangle claims that Plagiary's play is a little long, how does Plagiary respond?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Puff do, as he grows more upset?

2. What does Puff do during Tilburina's mad scene?

3. Why is the play quite short?

4. How does Puff react to the prompter's warning?

5. What does Puff do when he enters?

6. What two opinions does Mrs. Dangle give of Plagiary's play?

7. When Dangle comments on the next scene beginning with a line from Shakespeare's "Othello", how does Puff respond?

8. After the love scene finishes, what does Puff congratulate himself on?

9. How does Plagiary demonstrate hypocrisy concerning Sneer?

10. What does Dangle ask Plagiary about his play, and how does Plagiary respond?

(see the answer keys)

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