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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Cyrano convince the Duenna to leave him alone with Roxane?
(a) He pays her some money
(b) He gives her pastries
(c) He threatens her
(d) He sends her on an errand

3. Why, according to Cyrano, do the Spanish troops never notice when he crosses their lines?
(a) They are asleep
(b) They have terrible hearing
(c) They are drunk
(d) He is too stealthy

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

5. In Scene 7, Christian compares his love to two mythological figures: Cupid and whom?
(a) Hermes
(b) Medusa
(c) Hercules
(d) Theseus

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cyrano offer to Christian to aid him in his pursuit of Roxane?

2. What word is Roxane unable to utter when she returns to the window in Scene 10?

3. Who does Cyrano chase from the shop at the end of Scene 4?

4. What two "serpents" does Christian claim his love has strangled?

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

(see the answer key)

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