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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. What is the driving force of this play?
(a) The love between a man and a woman.
(b) The frustrations of an uninspired playwright.
(c) The friendship between two married couples.
(d) Pretensions of people who think they know more than they do.

2. How does Plagiary respond to the offer to help him send his play to producers?
(a) He refuses the offer because he does not trust it.
(b) He does not intend to send his play to producers.
(c) He says he has already sent it out.
(d) He accepts the offer.

3. What does Plagiary say angers him?
(a) Sneer.
(b) The belief that negative criticism upsets him.
(c) The critic's negative review.
(d) Dangle pretending to be his friend.

4. Who asks to accompany Dangle to Puff's rehearsal?
(a) Sneer.
(b) Dangle.
(c) Plagiary.
(d) Puff.

5. Whose language obscures who he truly is?
(a) Sneer's.
(b) Plagiary's.
(c) Puff's.
(d) Dangle's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the servant announce at the end of Act 1, Scene 1, Part 1?

2. Who hints that they have influenced what is read in papers and public advertisements?

3. Who says more incidents are needed in the fifth act of Plagiary's play?

4. Who does Puff claim that he taught to speak better?

5. Who announces Sneer's arrival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Puff respond to Dangle and Sneer's questions and comments?

2. During and after the scene about the orphan, what does Puff say about this scene?

3. What is a satire, and who is the target of this particular satire?

4. What does Dangle ask Puff about his play, and how does Puff respond?

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

6. Describe the scene that is first enacted in Act 3, Scene 1.

7. Describe Dangle's argument with his wife during breakfast.

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

9. When the prompter announces the beginning of the rehearsal, what does he warn Puff about?

10. What does Puff argue for in the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

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