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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the Comte de Guiche give for leaving at the end of Scene 5?
(a) He must inspect his guns
(b) He must strike his tent
(c) He must rally the other troops
(d) He must polish his armor

2. Who is asking to see Roxane at the end of Scene 2?
(a) Ligniere
(b) Carbon
(c) Ragueneau
(d) Cyrano

3. What weapon has been used to mortally injure Cyrano?
(a) A musket
(b) A wagon wheel
(c) A block of wood
(d) A scythe

4. What in the below list is not among the groups that Cyrano regularly attacks in his writing, according to Le Bret?
(a) Pretenders
(b) Usurpers
(c) Plagarists
(d) Philanderers

5. Which of the following is not an animal that the cadets hope has been captured for food?
(a) A trout
(b) A pheasant
(c) A sparrow
(d) A carp

6. What does Cyrano do every morning before dawn?
(a) Rouses the troops with a bawdy poem
(b) Delivers Christian's letter
(c) Prays
(d) Scavenges for food in the woods

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

8. What assistance does de Guiche offer to Carbon in Scene 7?
(a) A wall of sandbags
(b) A few extra men
(c) New muskets
(d) A cannon

9. Which of the following is not a term that Roxane uses to describe Christian's prose in her speech in Scene 8?
(a) Compelling
(b) Sincere
(c) Profound
(d) Uplifting

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

11. What does de Guiche say he should like to do with Cyrano in Scene 2?
(a) Shake his hand
(b) Reminisce with him
(c) Give him money
(d) Slap him

12. Which is the first instrument that Cyrano instructs be played in Scene 3?
(a) The lyre
(b) The castanet
(c) The fife
(d) The drum

13. When de Guiche accuses a cadet of being intoxicated, the cadet claims to be so because of what?
(a) Fear
(b) His love of France
(c) The presence of a beautiful woman
(d) The smell of powder

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

15. Through what building does Le Bret exit at the end of Scene 3?
(a) The stable
(b) The chapel
(c) The nave
(d) The refractory

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following items is not something the cadets seek out at the beginning of Scene 6?

2. In what state did Ragueneau leave Cyrano before coming to the convent?

3. What does de Guiche recommend Cyrano do in Scene 2?

4. Who attends Roxane throughout Scene 4?

5. On what day does Cyrano customarily visit the convent?

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