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| The author's first profession was... |
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| The real cyrano lived in wat century? |
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| Why was Cyrano de Bergerac unique? |
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| Rostand departed from the realist, unsentimental tradition to present an unabashed historical romance |
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| The author's last play was released when? This means that it was a __________ prodction. |
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| What does Cyrano say he will take with him to heaven? |
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| Who hires the hundred men to kill Ligniere? |
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| Why is Roxane worried for Christian’s safety among the Cadets of Gascoyne? |
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| The Cadets of Gascoyne tend to pick on anyone who is not a Gascon |
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| Whom does de Guiche propose as possible patrons for Cyrano in Act II? |
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| Where are Roxane and Christian married? |
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| Who tells Christian about the plot to kill Ligniere? |
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| What is Cyrano’s relation to Roxane? |
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| What does de Guiche do with the white plume after Cyrano produces it? |
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| He waves it as a signal to a spy |
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| How does Christian prove his bravery to the cadets? |
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| Why does Christian’s action (insulting cyran's nose) go unpunished? |
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| Cyrano has promised Roxane to protect Christian |
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| Why are the cadets hungry at the siege of Arras? |
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| They are besieged and their supply lines have been cut by the Spanish army |
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| How does Cyrano distract de Guiche while Roxane and Christian are being married? |
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| By pretending to have fallen from the moon |
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| How does Cyrano win a pair of minstrels for a day? |
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| By winning a bet over a question of grammar |
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| Why does Cyrano hate Montfleury? |
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| Because he dared to smile at Roxane |
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| How does Cyrano treat the nuns in Roxane’s convent? |
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| How does Roxane discover that Cyrano wrote the letters? |
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| She observes that he is able to read one of the letters aloud even in the dark |
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| How is Cyrano dealt his mortal wound? |
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| A giant log is dropped on him from a high window |
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| Why does Ragueneau’s marriage fail? |
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| His wife leaves him for a musketeer |
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| Where does Cyrano meet Roxane in Act II? |
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| How often does Cyrano write Roxane on Christian’s behalf during the siege of Arras? |
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| Who insults Cyrano’s nose most often during the play? |
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| He dies in battle at the siege of Arras |
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| Why doesn’t Cyrano buy himself dinner after the duel in the theater? |
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| He tossed all his money to Bellerose |
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| he lives until end of play |
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| Cyrano de Bergerac takes place during which two years? |
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| Cyrano’s cousin, a beautiful and intellectual heiress. She has a soft spot for romance and a love for poetry and wit |
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| A poet, swordsman, scientist, playwright, musician, and member of the Cadets of Gascoyne, a company of guards from Southern France. For all his prodigious talents, Cyrano is unattractive, cursed with a ridiculously long nose that makes him insecure and keeps him from revealing his love for his cousin Roxane |
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| Baron Christian de Neuvillette |
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| Perhaps the opposite of Cyrano, Christian a handsome but simple young nobleman who lacks wit and intelligence. New to Paris and to the cadets, he falls in love with Roxane and joins Cyrano’s company of cadets early in the play. His good looks are matched only by Roxane’s. |
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| A powerful, married nobleman in love with Roxane and not fond of Cyrano. Deceitful and always angry, he attempts several times to have Cyrano killed, once by a hundred men. |
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| Cyrano’s friend, a pastry chef with a deep love for poetry. Ragueneau gives away pastries in return for poems, and, therefore, innumerable poets visit him frequently. He reflects the theme that poetry is food for the soul, and underlines the division between the physical and spiritual aspects of the world. After his business fails, he becomes Roxane’s porter. |
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| Cyrano’s friend and closest confidant. He is a fellow soldier and guardsman. Le Bret worries that Cyrano’s principles will ruin his career, but Cyrano ignores Le Bret’s concerns. |
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| Christian’s friend, a satirist and drunkard with many powerful enemies. Cyrano protects him from the hundred men hired by de Guiche to ambush him |
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| Roxane’s companion and chaperone,who tries to keep Roxane out of trouble. She is a character reminiscent of Juliet’s nurse in Romeo and Juliet. |
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| An insolent young nobleman lauded by de Guiche as a possible husband for Roxane, a scheme that would give de Guiche access to Roxane. After he insults Cyrano’s nose, he is defeated in an ensuing duel. |
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| A fat, untalented actor whom Cyrano bans from the stage. |
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| Cyrano’s friend and the captain of his company. He is a strong-willed and successful leader. |
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| Ragueneau’s sharp-tongued wife. She does not approve of her husband’s patronage of the local poets. An altogether unhappy woman, she leaves Ragueneau for a musketeer after Act II. |
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| A modest and well-meaning monk. De Guiche employs him to carry a message to Roxane. He is diverted at first by Cyrano when they are outside Roxane’s residence. He later presides over Roxane and Christian’s hasty wedding |
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| Nun of Roxane’s convent. she is a compassionate woman who admires and respects Cyrano and therefore allows him to visit whenever he wishes. |
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| A minor nobleman and hanger-on, always at the fringe of Paris nightlife. |
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| Cuigy's friend, another minor nobleman |
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| Why does Cyrano make fun of himself? Does he succeed in this? |
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He does this to shut up an annoying fan without violence by making him feel stupid and bad at the same time.
He does, the fan goes away |
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| What was the real purpose in Cyrano's last visit to Roxane? |
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| To prove to her that he is the true writer of the love letters to her 15 years earlier |
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| What action does cyrano imply is braver than figthing 100 men? |
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| Helping Roxane by protecting Christian. |
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| When does roxane show cleverness? |
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1. Getting through the spanish lines
2. Noticing that cyrano could read the letter in the dark |
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| When does Christian show courage? |
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1. When he insults Cyrano's nose
2. When he tells Cyrano that he must let Roxane decide between the two
3. When he fights to the death in the siege of Arras |
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| How does Cyrano embarrass De Guiche? |
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1. White plume incident
2. Killing all of De guiche's assasins
3. No accepting De Guiches sponsorship offer
4. Detaining him with ludicrous story about falling from moon. |
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| Explain: "i have loved but one man and have lost him twice" |
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| she loved cyrano all along but first she didn't realize that cyrano was her true love so she let him go then she waited too long until he left again, this time permanently in death, both times because of her lack of insight. |
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| What keeps us from laughing at christian during the play? |
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| I refuse to answer such a stupid question. I think you will all get over it. |
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| Explain cyrano's feelings about patronage and editing. |
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| "I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!" He says that to write for money or to write for others, deadens the poet's art, it removes the fire and the passion. He would rather be a beggar writing for himself than a rich poet working for some faceless nobleman, listening to critics and editors. |
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