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Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

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Summary
- Plot Overview
Characters
- Character List
- Cyrano
- Roxane
- De Guiche
- Christian
Main Ideas
- Themes
- Motifs
- Symbols
- Key Facts
Quotes
- Important Quotes Explained
Further Study
- Context
- Full Book Quiz
- Study Questions
- Suggestions for Further Reading
Writing Help

Further Study

Full Book Quiz

Further Study Full Book Quiz

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

His sword
His white plume
His nose
One of Ragueneau’s pastries

2. Who hires the hundred men to kill Ligniere?

Comte de Guiche
Cardinal Richelieu
Cyrano
Valvert

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

He is not a skilled fighter
He has written a scathing satire about the cadets
He is hot-tempered and tends to pick fights
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?

Richelieu and Valvert
Valvert and himself
Richelieu and himself
He says that Cyrano does not need a patron

5. Where are Roxane and Christian married?

On the battlefield
In Roxane’s house
In the convent
At the Chapel of St. Beatrice

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

A pickpocket
Cyrano
Ragueneau
De Guiche

7. What is Cyrano’s relation to Roxane?

He is her uncle
He is her brother-in-law
He is her cousin
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?

He waves it as a signal to a spy
He tucks it into his pocket angrily
He tears it to shreds
He throws it to the ground

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

He challenges Valvert to a duel
He proclaims his love for Roxane
He insults Cyrano’s nose
He steals Carbon’s sword

10. Why does Christian’s action go unpunished?

Valvert is a terrible swordsman
Roxane thinks he means someone else
Cyrano has promised Roxane to protect Christian
Carbon steals the sword back without saying a word

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

They are besieged and their supply lines have been cut by the Spanish army
De Guiche did not order enough rations before the company left France
The peasants have burned their crops, making foraging impossible
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?

By pretending to be a Spanish spy
By pretending to have fallen from the moon
By pretending to be Valvert
By challenging him to a duel

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

By defeating the king’s best musketeer in a duel
By correctly guessing the note they were playing
By defeating Valvert in a horse race
By winning a bet over a question of grammar

14. Why does Cyrano hate Montfleury?

Because he is hideously fat
Because he once mocked Cyrano’s nose
Because he dared to smile at Roxane
Because he refuses to act in Cyrano’s play

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

He teases them fondly
He is solemn and respectful
He ignores them because they do not concern him
He hates their Christian hypocrisy

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

Christian tells her
Cyrano tells her
Through a keyhole, she spies Cyrano writing her
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?

In battle against the Spanish
A giant log is dropped on him from a high window
In a duel against de Guiche
In a duel against Christian

18. Why does Ragueneau’s marriage fail?

He falls in love with the duenna
He and his wife argue over the children’s futures
His wife leaves him for a musketeer
His wife leaves him for a poor poet

19. Where does Cyrano meet Roxane in Act II?

In Ragueneau’s bakery
In the park at the convent
In the orchard at her house
In the kitchen of the palace

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

Monthly
Weekly
Daily
Hourly

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

Christian
Valvert
De Guiche
Cyrano

22. How does Christian die?

Cyrano kills him over Roxane
De Guiche kills him over Roxane
Valvert kills him over Roxane
He dies in battle at the siege of Arras

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

He is not hungry
He prefers to wait until he has defeated the hundred men
He tossed all his money to Bellerose
He tossed all his money to Le Bret

24. Who kills de Guiche?

Cyrano
Christian
Valvert
De Guiche lives to the end of the play

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

1789 and 1805
1500 and 1550
1640 and 1655
1830 and 1845

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