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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new honor does de Guiche announce he has been given in Scene 2?
(a) Commander of the Guards
(b) Keeper of the Common Stores
(c) Protector of Paris
(d) Poet Laureate

2. What act does Cyrano tell Roxane not to miss at Clomire's before she leaves in Scene 3?
(a) Trained monkeys
(b) Tumblers
(c) Firebreathers
(d) Singing twins

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

4. In Scene 5, what does Cyrano protest he has never done, though he has good cause?
(a) Seduced a woman
(b) Overslept
(c) Cried
(d) Killed a man

5. Where does Cyrano go onstage in Scene 12?
(a) On the garden wall
(b) Under a bench
(c) The balcony
(d) Into Roxane's lodging

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous French literary figure appears in the fourth scene of the play?

2. Which character is trying to seduce the Flower Girl in the first scene?

3. In Scene 7, Christian compares his love to two mythological figures: Cupid and whom?

4. What does one cadet say Christian will look like after Cyrano is finished with him?

5. What profession is Lise's "friend" that enters in Scene 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Roxane trick the monk in Scene 11?

2. How does Cyrano delay Christian's kiss in Scene 10?

3. Describe the scene created when Ragueneau's poets enter the shop.

4. Why hasn't Cyrano professed his love to Roxane?

5. What news does Roxane tell Cyrano in Scene 6?

6. Describe the scene at the beginning of the play.

7. What new sadness has befallen Ragueneau at the beginning of Act 3?

8. Why does Cyrano truly detest Montfleury?

9. What point does Cyrano make in Scene 8 about patronage of the arts?

10. With what has Ragueneau been preoccupied in Act 2?

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