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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous French literary figure appears in the fourth scene of the play?
(a) Tartuffe
(b) Madame Le Farge
(c) Edmond Dantes
(d) D'Artagnan

2. What word is Roxane unable to utter when she returns to the window in Scene 10?
(a) Christian
(b) No
(c) Kiss
(d) Love

3. Who does Cyrano chase from the shop at the end of Scene 4?
(a) Ragueneau
(b) The musketeer
(c) Lise
(d) A poet

4. To which two classical figures does Cyrano compare Roxane in Scene 5?
(a) Antigone and Livia
(b) Cleopatra and Bernice
(c) Penelope and Antonia
(d) Hecuba and Eurydice

5. Where does Ragueneau take his poets to give Cyrano privacy?
(a) The street
(b) The cellar
(c) Upstairs
(d) A back room

6. What is Cyrano doing when he enters in Act 3, Scene 1?
(a) Singing
(b) Crying
(c) Screaming
(d) Laughing

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

8. What does Ragueneau actively ignore in his shop?
(a) Overstuffed pastries
(b) Rodent infestation
(c) Musketeer's seduction
(d) Poet's theft

9. What character briefly enters the courtyard in Scene 8?
(a) A cadet
(b) A page
(c) A monk
(d) A poet

10. What two vices does Cyrano proclaim to want to slay at the end of Scene 8?
(a) Frivolity and Foolishness
(b) Greed and Deceit
(c) Hatred and Fear
(d) Envy and Cowardice

11. Who informs Cyrano that Roxane wishes to meet him?
(a) Ragueneau
(b) Her Duenna
(c) Christian
(d) Le Bret

12. In what theatrical term does Cyrano characterize the battle that is about to about to take place at the end of Act 1?
(a) English dumbshow
(b) Spanish drama
(c) French farce
(d) German opera

13. What two colors does Cyrano use to describe Christian and Roxane in Scene 9?
(a) Red and Blue
(b) Lavender and Crimson
(c) Pink and Gold
(d) Black and White

14. Which of the following is not someone to whom Roxane says goodbye as she returns from Clomire's?
(a) Gremione
(b) Alcandre
(c) Richelieu
(d) Barthenoide

15. What aspect of Christian's character does Cyrano forget as he woos Roxane in Scene 10?
(a) He is handsome
(b) He has only recently met her
(c) He is young
(d) He is a lord

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cyrano implore Roxane not to do in Scene 7?

2. Where does Cyrano go onstage in Scene 12?

3. According to the poets of Scene 4, how many ruffians lie dying because of Cyrano's sword?

4. At the beginning of Scene 8, what supposed vice does Cyrano defend to Le Bret?

5. What does Cyrano give to Christian at the end of Scene 10?

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