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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 profession is Lise's "friend" that enters in Scene 3?
(a) A musketeer
(b) An actor
(c) A priest
(d) A chef

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

3. Under what name did Roxane go when she was younger?
(a) Constance
(b) Helene
(c) Yvette
(d) Magdeleine

4. At what time is Roxane meeting Cyrano?
(a) 3 o'clock
(b) Noon
(c) Seven o'clock
(d) Midnight

5. In Scene 2, Ragueneau wraps an order of patties in a sonnet to whom?
(a) Phyllis
(b) Eleanor
(c) Andramoche
(d) Penelope

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Roxane wish to meet Cyrano the following day?

2. What false promise to the monk does Roxane claim is in de Guiche's letter?

3. How long does the monk say Cyrano needs to detain the Comte de Guiche?

4. What two colors does Cyrano use to describe Christian and Roxane in Scene 9?

5. When the monk returns at the beginning of Scene 11 looking for Magdeleine Robin, Cyrano claims to have misheard the latter name as what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job is Cyrano given in Scene 12?

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

3. What requests does Roxane make of Cyrano before leaving in Scene 3?

4. How does Cyrano explain Christian's uncertain poetry to Roxane?

5. Why does Ragueneau expect Cyrano at the play?

6. How does Cyrano react to the loutish Citizen's attack on his nose?

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

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

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

10. Why does Cyrano leave the theatre at the end of Act 1?

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