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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Christian insist Cyrano do as a result of Roxane's profession of love?
(a) Leave the camp
(b) Never speak a word to her again
(c) Get her away from the siege
(d) Tell her the truth

2. Which of the following is not a location that Cyrano guesses he is while stalling de Guiche?
(a) Algeria
(b) Brussels
(c) Genoa
(d) Venice

3. In the last word of the play, what does Cyrano announce he will take unblemished into the afterlife?
(a) His love's kiss
(b) His sword
(c) His soul
(d) His plume

4. What, according to Cyrano, is still Christian's in the letter?
(a) The love
(b) The blood
(c) The intent
(d) The spirit

5. What moment in the play does Cyrano claim to Roxane was the epitome of his life?
(a) The balcony scene
(b) The seige at Arras
(c) His present death by her side
(d) The defeat of Valvert

6. What does Christian ask Roxane to do at the end of Scene 8?
(a) Bring him another glass of wine
(b) Forget him after he dies
(c) Ask Cyrano about the letters
(d) Visit the other men

7. What other major character has Roxane brought along in her coach?
(a) Ragueneau
(b) Montfleury
(c) Valvert
(d) Ligniere

8. Which of the following is not among the enemies Cyrano fights at the end of the play?
(a) Compromise
(b) Silliness
(c) Cowardice
(d) Hypocrisy

9. What word does Cyrano accidentally state that alerts Roxane to Christian's death?
(a) Were
(b) God
(c) No
(d) Been

10. Which of the following is not a constellation with which Cyrano claims to have interacted on his drop from the moon?
(a) Libra
(b) The Great Bear
(c) Orion
(d) The Trident

11. How many years after the events of Act 4 does Act 5 take place?
(a) 5
(b) 15
(c) 10
(d) 20

12. What does Roxane say she followed to find Arras?
(a) The devastation
(b) The north star
(c) The map
(d) Her heart

13. Who informs Cyrano of Christian's fatal wound?
(a) de Guiche
(b) Roxane
(c) Le Bret
(d) Carbon

14. Which of the following items is not something the cadets seek out at the beginning of Scene 6?
(a) Soap
(b) A razor
(c) A pocket-mirror
(d) Cologne

15. What does Christian discover in Cyrano's most recent letter to Roxane that shocks him in Scene 4?
(a) No declarations of love
(b) An intimation of suicide
(c) Cyrano's signature
(d) A tear stain

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Cyrano, do the Spanish troops never notice when he crosses their lines?

2. When de Guiche accuses a cadet of being intoxicated, the cadet claims to be so because of what?

3. Why does Roxane reason Cyrano is late?

4. One cadet in Scene 2 offers all his lordly titles for what food?

5. What in the below list is not among the groups that Cyrano regularly attacks in his writing, according to Le Bret?

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