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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 6 | Act 2, Scene 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the players of the Hotel de Bourgogne doing at the end of the first act?
(a) Eating
(b) Sleeping
(c) Dancing
(d) Rehearsing

2. What action in Scene 2 signifies that the play-within-the-play is about to begin?
(a) The raising of the curtain
(b) The beginning of the dumb-show
(c) The playing of music
(d) The lighting of the chandeliers

3. At the beginning of Scene 6, Roxane thanks Cyrano for teaching who a lesson?
(a) The Duenna
(b) de Guiche
(c) Valvert
(d) Montfleury

4. Which of the following is not a person who arrives to see the play-within-the-play in the first scene?
(a) A page
(b) A pickpocket
(c) A cavelier
(d) A poet

5. Where does Cyrano appear in Scene 3?
(a) The audience pit
(b) De Guiche's box
(c) The stage
(d) The rafters

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lise use as wrapping for Ragueneau's food?

2. What is Ragueneau's profession?

3. In what theatrical term does Cyrano characterize the battle that is about to about to take place at the end of Act 1?

4. What does Ragueneau actively ignore in his shop?

5. Who warns Christian that Ligniere's life is in danger?

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