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Cyrano de Bergerac

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Act I, scenes i–iii

Act II, scenes i–vi

Act II, scenes vii–xi

Act IV, scenes i–v

Act V, scenes i-vi

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Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

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1. What does Cyrano say he will take with him to heaven?

(A) His sword

(B) His white plume

(D) One of Ragueneau's pastries

2. Who hires the hundred men to kill Ligniere?

(A) Comte de Guiche

(B) Cardinal Richelieu

(D) Valvert

3. Why is Roxane worried for Christian's safety among the Cadets of Gascoyne?

(A) He is not a skilled fighter

(B) He has written a scathing satire about the cadets

(D) The Cadets of Gascoyne tend to pick on anyone who is not a Gascon

4. Whom does de Guiche propose as possible patrons for Cyrano in Act II?

(A) Richelieu and Valvert

(B) Valvert and himself

(D) He says that Cyrano does not need a patron

5. Where are Roxane and Christian married?

(A) On the battlefield

(B) In Roxane's house

(D) At the Chapel of St. Beatrice

6. Who tells Christian about the plot to kill Ligniere?

(A) A pickpocket

(B) Cyrano

(D) De Guiche

7. What is Cyrano's relation to Roxane?

(A) He is her uncle

(B) He is her brother-in-law

(D) He is not related to her; he hopes to become her husband

8. What does de Guiche do with the white plume after Cyrano produces it?

(A) He waves it as a signal to a spy

(B) He tucks it into his pocket angrily

(D) He throws it to the ground

9. How does Christian prove his bravery to the cadets?

(A) He challenges Valvert to a duel

(B) He proclaims his love for Roxane

(D) He steals Carbon's sword

10. Why does Christian's action go unpunished?

(A) Valvert is a terrible swordsman

(B) Roxane thinks he means someone else

(D) Carbon steals the sword back without saying a word

11. Why are the cadets hungry at the siege of Arras?

(A) They are besieged and their supply lines have been cut by the Spanish army

(B) De Guiche did not order enough rations before the company left France

(D) To prove their valor, the cadets refuse to eat before battle

12. How does Cyrano distract de Guiche while Roxane and Christian are being married?

(A) By pretending to be a Spanish spy

(B) By pretending to have fallen from the moon

(D) By challenging him to a duel

13. How does Cyrano win a pair of minstrels for a day?

(A) By defeating the king's best musketeer in a duel

(B) By correctly guessing the note they were playing

(D) By winning a bet over a question of grammar

14. Why does Cyrano hate Montfleury?

(A) Because he is hideously fat

(B) Because he once mocked Cyrano's nose

(D) Because he refuses to act in Cyrano's play

15. How does Cyrano treat the nuns in Roxane's convent?

(A) He teases them fondly

(B) He is solemn and respectful

(D) He hates their Christian hypocrisy

16. How does Roxane discover that Cyrano wrote the letters?

(A) Christian tells her

(B) Cyrano tells her

(D) She observes that he is able to read one of the letters aloud even in the dark

17. How is Cyrano dealt his mortal wound?

(A) In battle against the Spanish

(B) A giant log is dropped on him from a high window

(D) In a duel against Christian

18. Why does Ragueneau's marriage fail?

(A) He falls in love with the duenna

(B) He and his wife argue over the children's futures

(D) His wife leaves him for a poor poet

19. Where does Cyrano meet Roxane in Act II?

(A) In Ragueneau's bakery

(B) In the park at the convent

(D) In the kitchen of the palace

20. How often does Cyrano write Roxane on Christian's behalf during the siege of Arras?

(A) Monthly

(B) Weekly

(D) Hourly

21. Who insults Cyrano's nose most often during the play?

(A) Christian

(B) Valvert

(D) Cyrano

22. How does Christian die?

(A) Cyrano kills him over Roxane

(B) De Guiche kills him over Roxane

(D) He dies in battle at the siege of Arras

23. Why doesn't Cyrano buy himself dinner after the duel in the theater?

(A) He is not hungry

(B) He prefers to wait until he has defeated the hundred men

(D) He tossed all his money to Le Bret

24. Who kills de Guiche?

(A) Cyrano

(B) Christian

(D) De Guiche lives to the end of the play

25. Cyrano de Bergerac takes place during which two years?

(A) 1789 and 1805

(B) 1500 and 1550

(D) 1830 and 1845

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