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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother Margaret forbid her Sisters from doing regarding Cyrano?

2. What does Le Bret announce must be done immediately upon hearing of Cyrano's injury?

3. What does Christian ask Roxane to do at the end of Scene 8?

4. What weapon has wounded Carbon at the end of Act 4?

5. What reason does the Comte de Guiche give for leaving at the end of Scene 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Le Bret and Carbon call on Cyrano at the end of Scene 1?

2. How has Roxane's love changed in the months since the siege?

3. What does Roxane say about her surroundings at the beginning of Scene 4?

4. What news of Cyrano does Ragueneau bring in Scene 3?

5. Describe Cyrano in Scene 5.

6. What does Roxane incorrectly assume when she see's Ragueneau and Le Bret exit in Scene 3?

7. How does Christian realize that Cyrano loves Roxane in Scene 4?

8. Why does Cyrano fear telling Roxane the truth regarding the letters?

9. How does the cadets' attitude toward the Comte de Guiche change in Scene 7?

10. Why does Cyrano wait so long to tell Roxane the truth?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cyrano de Bergerac is a friend to the common man and a fierce enemy to hypocrisy and pompousness. Write an essay about his various successes in humbling the soft upper crust of Paris. What does he dislike about each of these adversaries? How does he humble them, and what are the consequences?

Part 1) Montfleury

Part 2) Valvert

Part 3) The Comte de Guiche in Act 4

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the play, Rostand uses caricatures of certain character types to create a sense of society at large. Write an essay about these caricatures - focusing on three - and what effect they create. What are they mocking? How do they create the impression of a status quo? How do major characters interact with them, and why?

Part 1) Monfleury

Part 2) The poets of Ragueneau's shop

Part 3) The sisters of the convent

Essay Topic 3

The idea of honor in CYRANO DE BERGERAC becomes synonymous with the idea of soldiery. Focusing on Le Bret, Carbon, and the cadets of Act 4, write an essay on the the lionization of the career soldier. How do these characters deal with adverse circumstances? What do they idolize and what do they revile? How do they react to the extremities of Cyrano?

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