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1. The setting of the play is in idyllic Bulgaria where there is a war going on between the natives and the Serbs. The hero, Captain Bluntschli, a professional soldier, joined the Serbian army. What is his nationality?
Swiss
American
English
German


2. In the beginning of the play the heroine Raina Petkoff is engaged to Sergius Saranoff who wins a battle in a wrong way. He leads a cavalry charge against whom?
Police
Navy
Artillery
Air force


3. Bluntschli compares Sergius to which famous literary character while describing the great cavalry charge to Raina?
Don Quixote
Superman
Horatio
Julius Caeser


4. In Bluntsclhi's famous iconoclastic dialogue to Raina he calls nine out of ten soldiers to be what?
coward
ghost
brave
selfish


5. Major Petkoff calls his wife's habit of washing her throat every day 'abominable'. He says that to keep up his social position he is willing to bathe once every month.
True
False


6. Louka, the maid, is engaged to Nicola, the man-servant. He has been called 'ablest man in Bulgaria' by which of the characters?
Major Petkoff
Sergius
Raina
Bluntschli


7. Raina blames Louka for breaking the ornament she had prepared for the ice pudding.
True
False


8. Bluntschli mistook Raina's age and called her a school-girl of seventeen. What was revealed to be her real age?
18
23
20
22





9. Raina and her mother had sent off Bluntscli in an old coat of Petkoff. In the pocket of the coat Raina had put something for Bluntscli. What was it?
Chocolate
A signed portrait
Handkerchief
Flower


10. The play is rounded off with two marriages. Raina and Bluntschli, and Louka and Sergius. Earlier in the play only one character had predicted Raina's marriage to Bluntscli, though she was engaged to Sergius. Who was it?
Louka
Nicola
Major Petkoff
Sergius







1: How is Raina's bedroom decorated?

a. Half rich Viennese, half cheap Bulgarian

b. Half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese

c. Like a tiki hut

d. Like a war staging room




2: How would you characterize Raina based on her behavior and dialogue in act one?

a. She wants to glory in the idealism of war.

b. She is troubled by the cruelty of war.

c. Both A and B.

d. Neither A nor B; she cares about romance, not war.

3: As Bluntschli hides in Raina's bedroom, what does he tell her that he keeps loaded in his gun?

a. Bullets

b. Blanks

c. Chocolates

d. Nothing

4: What does Raina tell Bluntschli that Sergius would do if he learned Bluntschli evaded capture by hiding in Raina's bedroom?

a. Have him arrested as a war criminal

b. Laugh at him

c. Stuff chocolates down his throat

d. Challenge him to a duel

5: What does Bluntschli think of Sergius' cavalry charge when he first hears of it?

a. It was a display of false heroics.

b. It was a suicide mission.

c. It was a ploy to get a promotion.

d. Sergius was demonstrating his love for Raina.


6: Why does Bluntschli return to the Petkoff house?

a. To return to coat he took when Raina hid him during the war

b. To see Raina one more time

c. To kill Major Petkoff

d. To prove to Sergius that Raina is a liar


7: Who does Sergius eventually marry?

a. Raina

b. Catherine

c. Louka

d. No one


8: Who says the following: "When you strike that noble attitude and speak in that thrilling voice, I admire you; but I find it impossible to believe a single word you say."

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Raina

d. Sergius


9: Who says the following: "Soldiering is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. . . . Never fight on equal terms."

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Raina

d. Sergius


10: Who says the following: "Which of the six is the real man? That's the question that torments me."

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Louka

d. Sergius


11: From what source does Raina derive many of her romantic ideals?

a. Shakespeare's romances

b. The opera

c. The Bible

d. Soap operas she listens to on the radio


12: What does Catherine wear, no matter what occasion or where she is?

a. A fashionable tea gown

b. A night gown and robe

c. A Parisian evening gown

d. Mountain climbing boots


13: Who says the following early in the play" "What glory is there in killing wretched fugitives?"

a. Louka

b. Catherine

c. Nicola

d. Raina


14: What war is the setting for the play?

a. The Bosnia-Serbian war

b. The Serbo-Bulgarian war

c. World War I

d. The Austro-Hungarian war

15: True or False: George Bernard Shaw intended Arms and the Man to be an anti-war statement.

a. True

b. False