🌹ENGLISH SLST::Arms and the Man-G.B.Shaw::Basic Information and MCQ questions with answers.🌹


 

 

 

🌹BASIC INFORMATION🌹

👉Dramatist: George Bernard Shaw

  • Irish playwright, critic, polemicist

  • Known for: witty satire, social criticism

  • Nobel Prize in Literature – 1925

Birth: 26th July, 1856, Dublin, Ireland
Death: 2nd November, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, England

Father: George Carr Shaw
Mother: Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw

Notable Works:

  • Man and Superman

  • Pygmalion

  • Major Barbara

  • Saint Joan

  • Arms and the Man

👉 First Title: Arms and the Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts

👉 Source/Background:

  • Based on the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885.

  • Aimed to satirize romanticized notions of war and heroism.

  • The title is borrowed from the opening line of Virgil's Aeneid ("Arma virumque cano").

👉 Written: 1893

👉 First Performed:

  • April 21, 1894, Avenue Theatre, London

  • Managed by Richard Mansfield

👉 Published:

  • 1898, in the first volume of Plays Pleasant
    (others in the volume: Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell)

👉 Type:

  • Social Comedy / Anti-romantic Comedy

  • Satire on war, love, heroism, and social class

👉 Setting:

  • Time: November 1885 (during the Serbo-Bulgarian war)

  • Place: Bulgaria

    • Petkoff’s house in a small Bulgarian town

    • A bedroom (Act I), a garden (Act II), and a library (Act III)

👉 Themes:

  • Illusion vs. Reality

  • Romanticism vs. Realism

  • Hypocrisy of War and Heroism

  • Class Distinctions and Gender Roles

  • The Nature of True Love

👉 Character List:

Major Characters:

Raina Petkoff – Daughter of Major Petkoff, engaged to Sergius, romantic and idealistic.

Captain Bluntschli – A Swiss mercenary in the Serbian army; practical, humorous, and honest.

Sergius Saranoff – A Bulgarian army officer; brave but foolish and theatrical.

Catherine Petkoff – Raina’s mother; proud of her family’s status.

Major Paul Petkoff – Raina’s father; comically confused about war and modern ideas.

Louka – A proud and ambitious servant girl who defies social norms.

Nicola – A clever and opportunistic servant who knows how to play safe.

👉 Acts / Scenes:

  • 3 Acts (No scenes subdivision)

Act I
➔ Setting: Raina’s bedroom, night.
➔ Plot: Raina shelters Captain Bluntschli, who has fled battle and climbed into her balcony.
➔ Highlights: Chocolate cream soldier, satire of war bravery.

Act II
➔ Setting: Garden of the Petkoff house.
➔ Plot: The war ends. Sergius returns as a "hero", but Bluntschli also visits. Tensions build between Louka and Nicola, and between Raina and Sergius.
➔ Highlights: Exposure of Sergius' shallow heroism, Louka’s rebellion.

Act III
➔ Setting: Petkoff library.
➔ Plot: Truths unfold. Raina realizes her love for Bluntschli. Louka wins Sergius. Social masks fall.
➔ Ending: Realism wins over romantic illusion.

👉 Stanza/Language Style:

  • Prose throughout

  • Witty, ironic, sarcastic tone

  • Frequent use of stage directions and Shavian prefaces

  • Didactic and intellectual dialogue

👉 Important Facts:

  • "Chocolate Cream Soldier" became an iconic nickname for Bluntschli.

  • The play marks a departure from traditional romanticism in theatre.

  • The anti-war message was revolutionary for its time.

  • Shaw’s characters often represent ideas (e.g., romanticism vs. realism).

  • Despite satire, it ends on a comic and hopeful note.

✍️MCQ QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS:

1. Who wrote Arms and the Man?
A. Oscar Wilde B. J.M. Synge C. George Bernard Shaw D. Henrik Ibsen.
Answer: C. George Bernard Shaw.

2. When was George Bernard Shaw born?
A. 26th July, 1855 B. 26th July, 1856 C. 26th August, 1856 D. 2nd November, 1856.
Answer: B. 26th July, 1856.

3. Where was Shaw born?
A. London, England B. Belfast, Ireland C. Dublin, Ireland D. Cork, Ireland.
Answer: C. Dublin, Ireland.

4. When did Shaw die?
A. 2nd October, 1950 B. 26th July, 1956 C. 2nd November, 1950 D. 25th December, 1950.
Answer: C. 2nd November, 1950.

5. In which year did George Bernard Shaw receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 1923 B. 1924 C. 1925 D. 1926.
Answer: C. 1925.

6. What was Shaw known for besides being a playwright?
A. Poet and novelist B. Painter and musician C. Critic and polemicist D. Philosopher and scientist.
Answer: C. Critic and polemicist.

7. What is the full title of Arms and the Man?
A. A Comedy of War and Peace B. Arms and the Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts
C. A Satire on Heroism D. A Bulgarian War Comedy.
Answer: B. Arms and the Man: An Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts.

8. What is the main theme of Arms and the Man?
A. Romantic tragedy B. Patriotism and sacrifice C. Satire on war and heroism D. Epic struggle of warriors.
Answer: C. Satire on war and heroism.

9. The title of the play Arms and the Man is taken from which classical work?
A. Homer’s Iliad B. The Bible C. Virgil’s Aeneid D. Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Answer: C. Virgil’s Aeneid.

10. What war serves as the backdrop for the play?
A. Crimean War B. World War I C. Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885 D. Anglo-Irish War.
Answer: C. Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885.

11. In which year was Arms and the Man written?
A. 1893 B. 1894 C. 1895 D. 1898.
Answer: A. 1893.

12. When was Arms and the Man first performed?
A. May 15, 1893 B. April 21, 1894 C. March 18, 1895 D. February 21, 1896.
Answer: B. April 21, 1894.

13. Where was the play first staged?
A. Globe Theatre, London B. Lyceum Theatre, London C. Avenue Theatre, London D. Royal Court Theatre, London.
Answer: C. Avenue Theatre, London.

14. Who managed the first performance of Arms and the Man?
A. Herbert Beerbohm Tree B. Richard Mansfield C. George Alexander D. W.S. Gilbert.
Answer: B. Richard Mansfield.

15. In which volume was Arms and the Man published in 1898?
A. Plays Unpleasant B. Plays Modern C. Shaw’s Collected Works D. Plays Pleasant.
Answer: D. Plays Pleasant.

16. Which of the following plays is NOT included in Shaw’s Plays Pleasant volume?
A. Candida B. You Never Can Tell C. Man and Superman D. The Man of Destiny
Answer: C. Man and Superman.

17. What is the genre of Arms and the Man?
A. Historical tragedy B. Farcical comedy C. Social comedy / Anti-romantic comedy D. Melodrama
Answer: C. Social comedy / Anti-romantic comedy.

18. What does the play mainly satirize?
A. Religion and politics B. Love and friendship C. War, love, heroism, and social class D. Education and marriage
Answer: C. War, love, heroism, and social class.

19. What is the time setting of the play?
A. November 1885 B. August 1890 C. May 1900 D. July 1875
Answer: A. November 1885.

20. Where is the play set?
A. Serbia B. England C. Austria D. Bulgaria
Answer: D. Bulgaria.

21. What is the setting of Act I?
A. Petkoff family library B. Garden of the house C. Raina’s bedroom at night D. Town square
Answer: C. Raina’s bedroom at night.

22. Which character is described as a “Chocolate Cream Soldier”?
A. Sergius Saranoff B. Captain Bluntschli C. Major Petkoff D. Nicola
Answer: B. Captain Bluntschli.

23. Who is Raina engaged to at the beginning of the play?
A. Bluntschli B. Nicola C. Major Petkoff D. Sergius Saranoff
Answer: D. Sergius Saranoff.

24. What does Bluntschli carry in his pockets instead of bullets?
A. Coins B. Chocolate creams C. Flowers D. Letters
Answer: B. Chocolate creams.

25. Which female character defies the social class norms?
A. Raina B. Catherine C. Louka D. Lucia
Answer: C. Louka.

26. Who is Louka’s love interest?
A. Bluntschli B. Major Petkoff C. Nicola D. Sergius
Answer: D. Sergius.

27. How many acts are there in Arms and the Man?
A. Two B. Four C. Three D. Five
Answer: C. Three.

28. Which act is set in the garden of the Petkoff house?
A. Act I B. Act II C. Act III D. None of these
Answer: B. Act II.

29. In which act does the truth about Raina and Bluntschli’s relationship unfold?
A. Act I B. Act II C. Act III D. None of these
Answer: C. Act III.

30. What is the tone of the play's language style?
A. Tragic and formal B. Witty, ironic, and sarcastic C. Poetic and romantic D. Plain and didactic
Answer: B. Witty, ironic, and sarcastic.

31. What kind of soldier is Captain Bluntschli?
A. Bulgarian officer B. Swiss mercenary C. English colonel D. Russian spy
Answer: B. Swiss mercenary.

32. Who is Raina’s father?
A. Major Petkoff B. Nicola C. Bluntschli D. Sergius
Answer: A. Major Petkoff.

33. Who is the playwright of Saint Joan and Pygmalion?
A. Oscar Wilde B. Henrik Ibsen C. George Bernard Shaw D. J.M. Synge
Answer: C. George Bernard Shaw.

34. When was Arms and the Man first performed?
A. 1893 B. 1898 C. April 21, 1894 D. May 7, 1895
Answer: C. April 21, 1894.

35. Which theatre hosted the first performance of the play?
A. Globe Theatre B. Avenue Theatre C. Lyceum Theatre D. Drury Lane
Answer: B. Avenue Theatre.

36. Who managed the first performance of Arms and the Man?
A. Richard Mansfield B. George Shaw C. Henry Irving D. Oscar Wilde
Answer: A. Richard Mansfield.

37. What literary work is referenced in the play's title?
A. Homer’s Odyssey B. Shakespeare’s Hamlet C. Virgil’s Aeneid D. Dante’s Divine Comedy
Answer: C. Virgil’s Aeneid.

38. When was Arms and the Man written?
A. 1885 B. 1893 C. 1898 D. 1900
Answer: B. 1893.

39. Who is Nicola?
A. Catherine’s cousin B. Swiss soldier C. A clever and cautious servant D. Louka’s brother
Answer: C. A clever and cautious servant.

40. Which character represents romantic illusion in the play?
A. Bluntschli B. Sergius C. Nicola D. Major Petkoff
Answer: B. Sergius.

41. Which of the following best describes Raina’s character arc?
A. Realistic to romantic B. Foolish to wise C. Romantic to realistic D. Aggressive to passive
Answer: C. Romantic to realistic.

42. Which theme is central to Arms and the Man?
A. Corruption in politics B. Illusion vs. Reality C. Industrialism D. Fate and destiny
Answer: B. Illusion vs. Reality.

43. Which act is set in the library?
A. Act I B. Act II C. Act III D. None
Answer: C. Act III.

44. What tone does Shaw frequently use in the play?
A. Sympathetic B. Witty and ironic C. Tragic and philosophical D. Epic and serious
Answer: B. Witty and ironic.

45. How does the play end?
A. With a battle B. With Louka leaving C. With a tragic twist D. With comic and hopeful resolution
Answer: D. With comic and hopeful resolution.

46. What time of year is the setting of the scene?
A. Early spring B. Summer C. Late November D. Mid-October
Answer: C. Late November
Supporting: "late in November in the year 1885"

47. Where is the lady’s bed chamber located?
A. Vienna B. Sofia C. A small town near the Dragoman Pass, Bulgaria D. The capital of Serbia
Answer: C. A small town near the Dragoman Pass, Bulgaria
Supporting: "a small town near the Dragoman Pass"

48. What natural feature is visible from the window?
A. A lake B. A forest C. A peak of the Balkans D. A river
Answer: C. A peak of the Balkans
Supporting: "a peak of the Balkans...seems quite close at hand"

49. How is the interior of the room described?
A. Entirely Bulgarian B. Typical Western European C. Half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese D. Entirely Viennese
Answer: C. Half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese
Supporting: "It is half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese."

50. What hangs above the head of the bed?
A. A painting of the Balkans B. A golden chandelier C. A shrine with an ivory image of Christ D. A family portrait
Answer: C. A shrine with an ivory image of Christ
Supporting: "a painted wooden shrine...with an ivory image of Christ"

51.What type of seat is placed opposite the window in the room?
A. A Victorian armchair. B. A Turkish ottoman. C. A wooden stool. D. A leather sofa.
Answer: B. A Turkish ottoman.
Supporting statement: The main seat is placed opposite the window in the room; it is a Turkish-style seat.

52.How are the bed’s counterpane and hangings described?
A. Simple and plain. B. Oriental and gorgeous. C. Western and dull. D. Old and worn out.
Answer: B. Oriental and gorgeous.
Supporting statement: The bedspread, window curtains, small carpet, and other decorative textiles in the room are all oriental and beautiful.

53.What is said about the paper on the walls?
A. It is oriental and rich. B. It is occidental and paltry. C. It is expensive and ornate. D. It is made of silk.
Answer: B. It is occidental and paltry.
Supporting statement: The paper on the walls is western-style and of poor quality.

54.What items are included in the washstand setup?
A. A wooden basin and soap. B. An enamelled iron basin, a pail, and a towel on a rail. C. A marble sink and fresh flowers. D. A brass bucket and sponge.
Answer: B. An enamelled iron basin, a pail, and a towel on a rail.
Supporting statement: The washstand near the window has an enamelled iron basin in a painted metal frame, a bucket underneath, and a towel hanging on a railing.

55.What covers the dressing table?
A. A plain white cloth. B. A cloth of many colors. C. A leather mat. D. A silk scarf.
Answer: B. A cloth of many colors.
Supporting statement: Between the bed and window is a pine table covered with a multicolored cloth.

56.What is placed on the dressing table?
A. A family photo. B. An expensive toilet mirror. C. A jewelry box. D. A vase of flowers.
Answer: B. An expensive toilet mirror.
Supporting statement: An expensive toilet mirror is placed on the table between the bed and window.

57.Where is the door located in relation to the bed?
A. Opposite the bed. B. Nearest the bed. C. Behind the window. D. Next to the chest of drawers.
Answer: B. Nearest the bed.
Supporting statement: The door is located closest to the bed.

58.What items are found on the chest of drawers?
A. A pile of paper-backed novels, a box of chocolate creams, and a miniature easel with a photograph. B. Candles and a lamp. C. A vase and some letters. D. Jewelry and perfume bottles.
Answer: A. A pile of paper-backed novels, a box of chocolate creams, and a miniature easel with a photograph.
Supporting statement: On the chest of drawers are stacked paper-covered novels, a box of chocolate creams, and a small easel holding a large, handsome officer’s photograph.

59.What is notable about the officer in the photograph?
A. He is very handsome with a lofty bearing and magnetic glance. B. He looks serious and sad. C. He is wearing a soldier’s uniform from another country. D. The photo is very small and unclear.
Answer: A. He is very handsome with a lofty bearing and magnetic glance.
Supporting statement: The officer in the photo is very handsome, with a majestic bearing and a magnetic look that shines through the picture.

60.How is the room illuminated?
A. By electric lights. B. By two candles, one on the chest of drawers and one on the dressing table. C. By a large chandelier. D. By sunlight only.
Answer: B. By two candles, one on the chest of drawers and one on the dressing table.
Supporting statement: The room is lit by two candles, one placed on the chest of drawers and another on the dressing table.

61.What stands open outside the window?
A. Iron bars. B. Wooden shutters opening outwards. C. A balcony door. D. Glass panes.
Answer: B. Wooden shutters opening outwards.
Supporting statement: Outside the window are two wooden shutters that open outwards and are currently open.

62.Who is standing on the balcony gazing at the snowy Balkans?
A. The mother. B. A young lady. C. The officer. D. A servant.
Answer: B. A young lady.
Supporting statement: A young lady is standing on the balcony, looking towards the snow-covered Balkans.

63.What is the young lady wearing on the balcony?
A. A summer dress. B. A nightgown and a long mantle of furs. C. A uniform. D. Casual clothes.
Answer: B. A nightgown and a long mantle of furs.
Supporting statement: She is wearing a nightgown with a long fur mantle wrapped around her.

64.How does the cost of the young lady’s fur mantle compare to the furniture?
A. It costs less. B. It costs about the same. C. It costs about three times as much. D. It is priceless.
Answer: C. It costs about three times as much.
Supporting statement: The fur mantle costs about three times as much as the furniture in the room.

65.Who interrupts the young lady’s reverie?
A. Her father. B. Her brother. C. Her mother, Catherine Petkoff. D. A servant.
Answer: C. Her mother, Catherine Petkoff.
Supporting statement: Her daydream is broken when her mother, Catherine Petkoff, enters.

66.What is Catherine full of when she enters hastily?
A. Bad news. B. Good news. C. Confusion. D. Anger.
Answer: B. Good news.
Supporting statement: Catherine enters hastily, full of good news.

67.How does Catherine pronounce Raina’s name?
A. Ray-na. B. Rah-eena, with stress on "ee". C. Rah-cena, with stress on "na". D. Rae-na, with stress on "na".
Answer: B. Rah-eena, with stress on "ee".
Supporting statement: She pronounces it Rah-cena, with the stress on the "na".

68.Where does Catherine expect to find Raina when she calls her?
A. In the kitchen. B. Outside the house. C. On the bed. D. In the garden.
Answer: C. On the bed.
Supporting statement: She goes to the bed, expecting to find Raina there.

69.What is Catherine’s reaction when she finds Raina out of bed?
A. She is angry. B. She is worried Raina will catch a cold. C. She is happy. D. She ignores her.
Answer: B. She is worried Raina will catch a cold.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "You'll catch your death."

70.What reason does Raina give for being awake and alone?
A. She was waiting for someone. B. She wanted to be alone. C. She couldn’t sleep. D. She was cleaning the room.
Answer: B. She wanted to be alone.
Supporting statement: Raina says, "I sent her away. I wanted to be alone."

71.What does Catherine say has happened?
A. A festival. B. A wedding. C. A battle. D. A storm.
Answer: C. A battle.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "There has been a battle."

72.Where was the battle fought?
A. Dragoman Pass. B. Slivnitza. C. Balkans. D. Vienna.
Answer: B. Slivnitza.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "A great battle at Slivnitza!"

73.Who won the battle according to Catherine?
A. The enemy. B. Sergius. C. Raina’s father. D. Louka.
Answer: B. Sergius.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "And it was won by Sergius!"

74.How does Raina react when she hears the news of victory?
A. She is indifferent. B. She cries sadly. C. She cries out in delight. D. She becomes angry.
Answer: C. She cries out in delight.
Supporting statement: Raina cries out “Ah!” and embraces Catherine happily.

75.What does Raina anxiously ask after hearing the news?
A. If the battle was long. B. If Sergius was hurt. C. If her father is safe. D. If the town is safe.
Answer: C. If her father is safe.
Supporting statement: Raina asks, "Is father safe?"

76.What kind of military action does Catherine enthusiastically describe?
A. A naval invasion. B. An air raid. C. A cavalry charge. D. An ambush.
Answer: C. A cavalry charge.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "A cavalry charge! think of that!"

77.What did Sergius do without receiving orders?
A. Retreated from battle. B. Led a cavalry charge. C. Surrendered. D. Sent a message.
Answer: B. Led a cavalry charge.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "acted without orders—led a charge on his own responsibility."

78.Who does Catherine compare to chaff scattered by Bulgarians?
A. Russian generals. B. Turkish rebels. C. Serbs and Austrian officers. D. Bulgarian civilians.
Answer: C. Serbs and Austrian officers.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "scattering the wretched Serbs and their dandified Austrian officers like chaff."

79.How does Catherine describe Sergius's actions in the charge?
A. Reckless and unnecessary. B. Lazy and fearful. C. Gallant and splendid. D. Cowardly and foolish.
Answer: C. Gallant and splendid.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "our gallant splendid Bulgarians."

80.How long did Raina keep Sergius waiting before accepting his proposal?
A. One month. B. One year. C. Two years. D. Six months.
Answer: B. One year.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "You kept Sergius waiting a year before you would be betrothed to him."

81.What does Catherine suggest Raina will feel when Sergius returns?
A. Regret. B. Worship. C. Anger. D. Jealousy.
Answer: B. Worship.
Supporting statement: Catherine says, "you will worship him when he comes back."

82.What does Raina fear Sergius may not value after his military praise?
A. Her family’s approval. B. Her dowry. C. Her personal worship. D. Her social status.
Answer: C. Her personal worship.
Supporting statement: Raina says, "What will he care for my poor little worship after the acclamations of a whole army of heroes?"

83.What does Raina believe the success of Sergius proves?
A. That war is unpredictable. B. That her ideas were imaginary. C. That their ideals were real. D. That love is greater than patriotism.
Answer: C. That their ideals were real.
Supporting statement: Raina says, "It proves that all our ideas were real after all."

84.What did Raina once fear about their heroic ideals?
A. That they were too aggressive. B. That they were childish fantasies. C. That they were nothing but dreams. D. That they would lead to war.
Answer: C. That they were nothing but dreams.
Supporting statement: Raina says, "I sometimes used to doubt whether they were anything but dreams."

85.What does Raina ask Catherine to promise at the end of the passage?
A. To send a letter to Sergius. B. To never mention Sergius again. C. To never tell Sergius her doubts. D. To tell Sergius how proud she is.
Answer: C. To never tell Sergius her doubts.
Supporting statement: Raina says, "Promise me you'll never tell him."

86. When does Raina start doubting the reality of their heroic ideas?
A. While reading Byron. B. While watching opera in Bucharest. C. While Sergius holds her and looks into her eyes. D. After Sergius returns from war.
Answer: C. While Sergius holds her and looks into her eyes.
Supporting Statement: “Well, it came into my head just as he was holding me in his arms and looking into my eyes…”

87. What literary influences does Raina mention as shaping their heroic ideas?
A. Shakespeare and Tolstoy. B. Byron and Pushkin. C. Homer and Dante. D. Goethe and Chekhov.
Answer: B. Byron and Pushkin.
Supporting Statement: “…we only had our heroic ideas because we are so fond of reading Byron and Pushkin…”

88. Where did Raina enjoy opera that influenced her ideals?
A. Moscow. B. Vienna. C. Sofia. D. Bucharest.
Answer: D. Bucharest.
Supporting Statement: “…and because we were so delighted with the opera that season at Bucharest.”

89. What does Raina say about real life in contrast to her ideals?
A. It is more dangerous. B. It is filled with romance. C. It is rarely like stories. D. It is full of honor.
Answer: C. It is rarely like stories.
Supporting Statement: “Real life is so seldom like that! Indeed never, as far as I knew it then.”

90. What emotion does Raina express when she admits doubting Sergius?
A. Anger. B. Indifference. C. Remorse. D. Joy.
Answer: C. Remorse.
Supporting Statement: “(Remorsefully) Only think, mother: I doubted him…”

91. What fear did Raina have about Sergius during real battle?
A. He might flee from war. B. He might be captured. C. His heroism might be imagination. D. He would betray his country.
Answer: C. His heroism might be imagination.
Supporting Statement: “I wondered whether all his qualities and his soldiership might not prove mere imagination…”

92. Who does Raina compare Sergius to during battle?
A. Turkish soldiers. B. Tsar’s court officers. C. Austrian generals. D. Serbian spies.
Answer: B. Tsar’s court officers.
Supporting Statement: “…he might cut a poor figure there beside all those clever officers from the Tsar's court.”

93. How does Catherine react to Raina's doubts about Sergius?
A. She agrees quietly. B. She laughs in surprise. C. She scolds her in shame. D. She expresses doubt too.
Answer: C. She scolds her in shame.
Supporting Statement: “A poor figure! Shame on you!”

94. What does Catherine say about Serbian and Austrian officers?
A. They are weak in battle. B. They are clever like the Russians. C. They always lose due to lack of training. D. They outsmart the Bulgarians.
Answer: B. They are clever like the Russians.
Supporting Statement: “The Serbs have Austrian officers who are just as clever as the Russians…”

95. How is Louka described when she enters the scene?
A. Humble and shy. B. Simple and fearful. C. Proud and defiant. D. Cheerful and obedient.
Answer: C. Proud and defiant.
Supporting Statement: “…a handsome proud girl…so defiant that her servility to Raina is almost insolent.”

96. What warning does Louka bring to Catherine?
A. Fire in the kitchen. B. Storm is approaching. C. Shooting may occur in the streets. D. Thieves have entered the town.
Answer: C. Shooting may occur in the streets.
Supporting Statement: “They say there may be shooting in the streets.”

97. How do Raina and Catherine react to Louka’s warning?
A. They laugh it off. B. They sit down silently. C. They rise together, alarmed. D. They go to sleep.
Answer: C. They rise together, alarmed.
Supporting Statement: “Raina and Catherine rise together, alarmed.”

98. What does Louka say about the Serbian troops?
A. They have surrendered. B. They are attacking the town. C. They are being chased back through the pass. D. They have captured the Bulgarian cavalry.
Answer: C. They are being chased back through the pass.
Supporting Statement: “The Serbs are being chased right back through the pass…”

99. Who will be chasing the Serbs according to Louka?
A. Russian guards. B. Austrian infantry. C. Bulgarian cavalry. D. Turkish forces.
Answer: C. Bulgarian cavalry.
Supporting Statement: “Our cavalry will be after them…”

100. What does Catherine decide to do after hearing Louka’s news?
A. Call the neighbors. B. Close the upstairs windows. C. Hide in the basement. D. Make everything safe downstairs.
Answer: D. Make everything safe downstairs.
Supporting Statement: “I must see that everything is made safe downstairs.”

101. What does Raina express regret about at the beginning of the passage?
A. That it’s raining. B. That fugitives are being killed. C. That Louka is careless. D. That she has to sleep early.
Answer: B. That fugitives are being killed.
Supporting Statement: “What glory is there in killing wretched fugitives?”

102. How does Catherine justify the cruelty against the fugitives?
A. They are criminals. B. They stole from the town. C. They would do worse if not stopped. D. They have no weapons.
Answer: C. They would do worse if not stopped.
Supporting Statement: “Do you suppose they would hesitate to kill you—or worse?”

103. What instruction does Raina give to Louka about the shutters?
A. Keep them locked tightly. B. Leave them open. C. Keep them partly arranged for closing. D. Cover them with curtains.
Answer: C. Keep them partly arranged for closing.
Supporting Statement: “Leave the shutters so that I can just close them if I hear any noise.”

104. What concern does Catherine raise about leaving the shutters open?
A. It will let mosquitoes in. B. Raina might fall ill. C. Raina may fall asleep and forget. D. Louka might forget to check.
Answer: C. Raina may fall asleep and forget.
Supporting Statement: “You would be sure to drop off to sleep and leave them open.”

105. What does Louka do after Catherine gives her the instruction?
A. Leaves the room. B. Opens the shutters. C. Fastens the shutters. D. Lights a candle.
Answer: C. Fastens the shutters.
Supporting Statement: “Yes, madam. (She fastens them.)”

106. What does Raina plan to do if she hears gunshots?
A. Hide under the bed. B. Call for help. C. Blow out the candles and cover her ears in bed. D. Run to her mother.
Answer: C. Blow out the candles and cover her ears in bed.
Supporting Statement: “I shall blow out the candles and roll myself up in bed with my ears well covered.”

107. How does Catherine respond to Raina’s plan for gunshots?
A. She scolds her. B. She agrees it’s wise. C. She ignores her. D. She tells her to keep the lights on.
Answer: B. She agrees it’s wise.
Supporting Statement: “Quite the wisest thing you can do, my love.”

108. What emotion returns to Raina as she says goodnight?
A. Fear. B. Anger. C. Joy. D. Indifference.
Answer: C. Joy.
Supporting Statement: “Her emotion comes back for a moment… This is the happiest night of my life…”

109. What does Raina ask her mother to do before she leaves?
A. Close the door. B. Wish her joy. C. Sing a lullaby. D. Give her a book.
Answer: B. Wish her joy.
Supporting Statement: “Wish me joy. (They kiss.)”

110. What does Catherine tell Raina before going out?
A. Read a book. B. Don’t think of the fugitives. C. Write a letter. D. Wait for Louka.
Answer: B. Don’t think of the fugitives.
Supporting Statement: “Go to bed, dear; and don’t think of them.”

111. What secret does Louka share with Raina about the shutters?
A. There’s a trap door. B. One bolt is missing. C. She will open them later. D. They are soundproof.
Answer: B. One bolt is missing.
Supporting Statement: “One of them ought to be bolted at the bottom, but the bolt's gone.”

112. How does Raina respond to Louka’s offer to keep the shutters operable?
A. She accepts it. B. She ignores her. C. She scolds her harshly. D. She politely refuses.
Answer: D. She politely refuses.
Supporting Statement: “Thanks, Louka; but we must do what we are told.”

113. What does Louka do as she exits the room?
A. Apologizes to Raina. B. Shouts at Catherine. C. Leaves carelessly, swaggering. D. Gives Raina a hug.
Answer: C. Leaves carelessly, swaggering.
Supporting Statement: “Goodnight. (She goes out, swaggering.)”

114. What does Raina do after being left alone?
A. Goes to bed immediately. B. Cries silently. C. Opens the window. D. Removes her cloak and approaches the portrait.
Answer: D. Removes her cloak and approaches the portrait.
Supporting Statement: “Raina, left alone, takes off her fur cloak and throws it on the ottoman. Then she goes to the chest of drawers…”

115. How does Raina show affection to the portrait?
A. She kisses it. B. She hugs it. C. She elevates it like a priestess. D. She hides it under her pillow.
Answer: C. She elevates it like a priestess.
Supporting Statement: “She takes it in her hands and elevates it like a priestess.”

116. What does Raina call the person in the picture?
(a) My friend (b) My love (c) My hero (d) My prince
Answer: (c) My hero.
Supporting Statement: RAINA: My hero! My hero!

117. What kind of books does Raina choose from the pile?
(a) Comics (b) Biographies (c) Novels (d) Poems
Answer: (c) Novels.
Supporting Statement: Then she selects a novel from the little pile of books.

118. How does Raina treat the picture before going to bed?
(a) Carelessly puts it aside (b) Looks at it and hides it (c) Reverently replaces it (d) Throws it on the table
Answer: (c) Reverently replaces it.
Supporting Statement: She replaces it reverently.

119. What interrupts Raina’s quiet night?
(a) A storm (b) Loud laughter (c) A distant shot (d) A door knock
Answer: (c) A distant shot.
Supporting Statement: A distant shot breaks the quiet of the night.

120. What does Raina do after hearing the shots?
(a) Screams and runs (b) Jumps out of bed and blows out the candle (c) Opens the window (d) Starts crying
Answer: (b) Jumps out of bed and blows out the candle.
Supporting Statement: She scrambles out of bed, and hastily blows out the candle.

121. Why does Raina blow out the light on the dressing table?
(a) To save power (b) To avoid being seen (c) Because it’s too bright (d) To go to sleep
Answer: (b) To avoid being seen.
Supporting Statement: She runs to the dressing table, blows out the light there, and hurries back to bed in the dark.

122. What remains visible in the dark room?
(a) Nothing (b) The stars through the window (c) The light from the pierced ball and starlight (d) The lamp on the table
Answer: (c) The light from the pierced ball and starlight.
Supporting Statement: Nothing being visible but the glimmer of the light in the pierced ball before the image, and the starlight seen through the slits at the top of the shutters.

123. What follows the initial shots?
(a) Thunder (b) Silence (c) A fusillade (d) Shouting
Answer: (c) A fusillade.
Supporting Statement: The firing breaks out again: there is a startling fusillade quite close at hand.

124. What is silhouetted in the flash of snowy starlight?
(a) A horse (b) A woman (c) A man (d) A tree
Answer: (c) A man.
Supporting Statement: And for an instant the rectangle of snowy starlight flashes out with the figure of a man silhouetted in black upon it.

125. How is the man first revealed?
(a) Through a knock (b) Through the window (c) Through the open shutters (d) Through the door
Answer: (c) Through the open shutters.
Supporting Statement: The shutters disappear, pulled open from without.

126. What sound breaks the silence after the shutters close?
(a) A match being struck (b) A bell (c) A scream (d) Panting
Answer: (d) Panting.
Supporting Statement: But the silence is now broken by the sound of panting.

127. What happens immediately after the match is lit?
(a) The lamp is turned on (b) The match goes out (c) Raina screams (d) The door opens
Answer: (b) The match goes out.
Supporting Statement: The match is out instantly.

128. What is Raina’s reaction upon seeing the match light?
(a) She screams (b) She asks who is there (c) She faints (d) She hides
Answer: (b) She asks who is there.
Supporting Statement: RAINA (crouching on the bed): Who’s there?

129. What does the man in the darkness warn Raina not to do?
(a) Run (b) Call out (c) Move (d) Light a candle
Answer: (b) Call out.
Supporting Statement: A MAN'S VOICE: Sh-sh! Don’t call out; or you’ll be shot.

130. What is the man’s tone in the darkness?
(a) Friendly (b) Sarcastic (c) Subdued but threatening (d) Joyful
Answer: (c) Subdued but threatening.
Supporting Statement: A MAN'S VOICE (in the darkness, subduedly, but threateningly).

131. What does the man say will happen if he does not shoot Raina?
(a) She will run away (b) She will kill him (c) Soldiers will burst in and kill him (d) He will faint
Answer: (c) Soldiers will burst in and kill him.
Supporting Statement: A lot of your cavalry will burst into this pretty room of yours and slaughter me here like a pig; for I'll fight like a demon.

132. How does the man describe the way he will fight?
(a) Like a hero (b) Like a demon (c) Like a soldier (d) Like a coward
Answer: (b) Like a demon.
Supporting Statement: For I'll fight like a demon.

133. Why won’t the man let himself be dragged into the street?
(a) He wants to escape (b) He is too tired (c) He knows the soldiers will amuse themselves with him (d) He is afraid of the dark
Answer: (c) He knows the soldiers will amuse themselves with him.
Supporting Statement: They shan’t get me into the street to amuse themselves with: I know what they are.

134. What comment does the man make about Raina’s attire?
(a) It is fashionable (b) It is beautiful (c) It is hardly presentable (d) It is military
Answer: (c) It is hardly presentable.
Supporting Statement: Hardly presentable, eh?

135. How does Raina react when he mentions her undress?
(a) She screams (b) She leaves the room (c) She gathers her gown tightly (d) She picks up a weapon
Answer: (c) She gathers her gown tightly.
Supporting Statement: Raina, suddenly conscious of her nightgown, instinctively shrinks, and gathers it more closely about her neck.

136. What does the man do when Raina moves toward the ottoman?
(a) He smiles (b) He opens the door (c) He raises his pistol and shouts (d) He hides
Answer: (c) He raises his pistol and shouts.
Supporting Statement: He raises his pistol instantly, and cries: Stop!

137. What is Raina’s response when asked where she is going?
(a) To call for help (b) To leave the room (c) To get her cloak (d) To hide under the bed
Answer: (c) To get her cloak.
Supporting Statement: Raina (with dignified patience): Only to get my cloak.

138. What does the man do with Raina’s cloak?
(a) Throws it out the window (b) Wears it himself (c) Keeps it so no one sees her (d) Returns it to her
Answer: (c) Keeps it so no one sees her.
Supporting Statement: I’ll keep the cloak; and you’ll take care that nobody comes in and sees you without it.

139. What does the man say about the cloak compared to the revolver?
(a) The cloak is useless (b) The revolver is better (c) The cloak is a better weapon (d) Both are equally strong
Answer: (c) The cloak is a better weapon.
Supporting Statement: This is a better weapon than the revolver: eh?

140. What is Raina’s reaction to the man’s act of throwing down the revolver?
(a) She thanks him (b) She laughs (c) She expresses disgust (d) She takes the gun
Answer: (c) She expresses disgust.
Supporting Statement: Raina (revolted): It is not the weapon of a gentleman!

141. What does the man mean when he says, “It’s good enough for a man with only you to stand between him and death”?
(a) He is confident Raina will protect him (b) He sees her as a threat (c) He believes she is useless (d) He thinks his weapon is enough for now
Answer: (d) He thinks his weapon is enough for now.
Supporting Statement: It's good enough for a man with only you to stand between him and death.

142. How does Raina feel when she sees the man's behavior?
(a) Calm and understanding (b) Shocked by his bravery (c) Unable to believe his selfishness and lack of chivalry (d) Amused by his jokes
Answer: (c) Unable to believe his selfishness and lack of chivalry.
Supporting Statement: Raina hardly able to believe that even a Serbian officer can be so cynically and selfishly unchivalrous.

143. What breaks the tension between the two characters during their standoff?
(a) A loud thunderstorm (b) A servant entering the room (c) A sharp fusillade in the street (d) The man laughing suddenly
Answer: (c) A sharp fusillade in the street.
Supporting Statement: They are startled by a sharp fusillade in the street.

144. What warning does the man give Raina if she lets the soldiers in?
(a) He will run away through the window (b) She will be shot (c) She will have to receive them in her current attire (d) He will surrender
Answer: (c) She will have to receive them in her current attire.
Supporting Statement: If you are going to bring those blackguards in on me you shall receive them as you are.

145. What are the pursuers doing outside the house?
(a) Sneaking quietly (b) Knocking politely (c) Battering the door and shouting (d) Waiting for orders
Answer: (c) Battering the door and shouting.
Supporting Statement: The pursuers in the street batter at the house door, shouting.

146. What do the voices outside shout while battering the door?
(a) Help us! Help us! (b) Open the door! Wake up, will you! (c) We are lost! (d) Silence inside!
Answer: (b) Open the door! Wake up, will you!
Supporting Statement: Voices: Open the door! Open the door! Wake up, will you!

147. What does the servant inside say in response to the noise outside?
(a) Go away now (b) This is Major Petkoff’s house: you can’t come in here (c) I’m coming (d) The major is asleep
Answer: (b) This is Major Petkoff’s house: you can’t come in here.
Supporting Statement: Servant’s Voice: This is Major Petkoff’s house: you can’t come in here.

148. What sound follows the continued clamor and banging?
(a) The sound of a gunshot (b) The chain being let down and heavy footsteps (c) Louka screaming (d) The front gate breaking
Answer: (b) The chain being let down and heavy footsteps.
Supporting Statement: With his letting a chain down with a clank, followed by a rush of heavy footsteps and a din of triumphant yells.

149. What is Catherine’s reaction to the soldiers barging in?
(a) She calls for help (b) She hides (c) She angrily questions the officer (d) She faints
Answer: (c) She angrily questions the officer.
Supporting Statement: Catherine, indignantly addressing an officer with: What does this mean, sir? Do you know where you are?

150. What does Louka urge Raina to do?
(a) Escape with the fugitive (b) Take her pistol (c) Open the bedroom door quickly (d) Shout for Catherine
Answer: (c) Open the bedroom door quickly.
Supporting Statement: Louka (outside, knocking at the bedroom door): My lady! My lady! Get up quick and open the door.

151. What does the man mean when he says, “No use, dear. I'm done for”?
(a) He is completely prepared to escape. (b) He has lost all hope of surviving. (c) He is playing a trick. (d) He is ready to attack.
Answer: (b) He has lost all hope of surviving.
Supporting Statement: The man (sincerely and kindly): No use, dear. I'm done for.

152. What does the man do after declaring he is “done for”?
(a) Hides under the bed (b) Lies down in surrender (c) Flings the cloak to Raina (d) Shoots himself
Answer: (c) Flings the cloak to Raina.
Supporting Statement: (Flinging the cloak to her) Quick! Wrap yourself up: they're coming.

153. How does Raina respond after receiving the cloak?
(a) She thanks him gratefully (b) She throws it back (c) She runs away (d) She cries
Answer: (a) She thanks him gratefully.
Supporting Statement: Raina: Oh, thank you.

154. What emotion does Raina show when she wraps herself up?
(a) Anxiety (b) Intense relief (c) Suspicion (d) Anger
Answer: (b) Intense relief.
Supporting Statement: (She wraps herself up with intense relief)

155. What does the man mean when he says, “The first man in will find out”?
(a) He will hide successfully (b) He plans to fight the first intruder (c) He will ask for help (d) He will run away
Answer: (b) He plans to fight the first intruder.
Supporting Statement: The man (grimly): The first man in will find out. Keep out of the way; and don't look. It won't last long; but it will not be nice.

156. What is Raina’s impulsive reaction when she sees the danger?
(a) She screams (b) She faints (c) She offers to help and save him (d) She runs to wake her mother
Answer: (c) She offers to help and save him.
Supporting Statement: Raina (impulsively): I'll help you. I'll save you.

157. How does the man react to Raina’s offer to hide him?
(a) He laughs (b) He surrenders (c) He yields to her plan with hope (d) He shouts at her
Answer: (c) He yields to her plan with hope.
Supporting Statement: The man (yielding to her): There's just half a chance, if you keep your head.

158. What warning does the man give before hiding behind the curtain?
(a) Don’t make noise (b) I trust you (c) Remember—nine soldiers out of ten are born fools (d) Don’t move
Answer: (c) Remember—nine soldiers out of ten are born fools.
Supporting Statement: The man: Nine soldiers out of ten are born fools.

159. What is Raina’s reaction to the man’s comment about soldiers?
(a) She agrees (b) She laughs (c) She angrily draws the curtain (d) She explains she’s not a soldier
Answer: (c) She angrily draws the curtain.
Supporting Statement: (She draws the curtain angrily before him)

160. What does the man say he will do if the soldiers find him?
(a) Escape through the window (b) Fight fiercely (c) Beg for mercy (d) Surrender peacefully
Answer: (b) Fight fiercely.
Supporting Statement: The man: If they find me, I promise you a fight: a devil of a fight.

161. What warning does Louka bring to Raina?
(a) A soldier is knocking at the door (b) The house is on fire (c) A Serb has been seen climbing up (d) Catherine is looking for her
Answer: (c) A Serb has been seen climbing up.
Supporting Statement: Louka: One of those beasts of Serbs has been seen climbing up the waterpipe to your balcony.

162. How does Louka describe the soldiers searching for the Serb?
(a) Calm and orderly (b) Drunk and furious (c) Sad and tired (d) Brave and noble
Answer: (b) Drunk and furious.
Supporting Statement: Louka: Our men want to search for him; and they are so wild and drunk and furious.

163. What is Louka’s physical reaction as she enters the room?
(a) She runs to the door (b) She collapses (c) She hides behind the curtain (d) She moves far from the door
Answer: (d) She moves far from the door.
Supporting Statement: (She makes for the other side of the room to get as far from the door as possible.)

164. Why does Louka stop mid-sentence while speaking to Raina?
(a) She is scolded (b) She sees the revolver (c) She forgets what to say (d) She hears someone at the door
Answer: (b) She sees the revolver.
Supporting Statement: (She sees the revolver lying on the ottoman, and stops, petrified.)

165. How does Raina react to Louka’s intrusion?
(a) With joy (b) With panic (c) As if annoyed (d) With gratitude
Answer: (c) As if annoyed.
Supporting Statement: RAINA (as if annoyed at being disturbed): They shall not search here.

166. What does Raina ask about the soldiers?
(a) Whether they’re armed (b) Why they were let in (c) If they are searching the garden (d) If they brought horses
Answer: (b) Why they were let in.
Supporting Statement: RAINA: Why have they been let in?

167. What is Catherine’s concern when she enters Raina’s room?
(a) The state of the furniture (b) If Raina is dressed (c) If Raina is safe (d) If Louka has followed orders
Answer: (c) If Raina is safe.
Supporting Statement: CATHERINE: Raina, darling: are you safe?

168. What does Raina say she heard?
(a) A man’s voice (b) Someone crying (c) The shooting (d) Her mother’s voice
Answer: (c) The shooting.
Supporting Statement: RAINA: I heard the shooting.

169. What does Raina believe about the soldiers' courage?
(a) They are fearless (b) They will not dare to come in (c) They are cowards (d) They will take prisoners
Answer: (b) They will not dare to come in.
Supporting Statement: RAINA: Surely the soldiers will not dare come in here?

170. What comforting news does Catherine bring?
(a) The Serb was caught (b) The army has left (c) A Russian officer knows Sergius (d) Louka has confessed everything
Answer: (c) A Russian officer knows Sergius.
Supporting Statement: CATHERINE: I have found a Russian officer, thank Heaven: he knows Sergius.

171. How does Catherine address the officer before he enters?
(a) With formality (b) Rudely (c) Emotionally (d) Casually
Answer: (a) With formality.
Supporting Statement: CATHERINE (speaking through the door): Sir: will you come in now. My daughter will receive you.

172. What is notable about the officer’s appearance?
(a) He is wounded (b) He is in Russian uniform (c) He wears civilian clothes (d) He is in Bulgarian uniform
Answer: (d) He is in Bulgarian uniform.
Supporting Statement: (A young Russian officer, in Bulgarian uniform, enters...)

173. What is the officer’s tone when he addresses Raina and Catherine?
(a) Harsh and commanding (b) Soft and polite (c) Nervous and hesitant (d) Indifferent
Answer: (b) Soft and polite.
Supporting Statement: OFFICER: Good evening, gracious lady... (with soft feline politeness)

174. What reason does the officer give for intruding?
(a) He is lost (b) He needs food (c) A Serb is hiding on the balcony (d) He is looking for Sergius
Answer: (c) A Serb is hiding on the balcony.
Supporting Statement: OFFICER: ...but there is a Serb hiding on the balcony.

175. What request does the officer make to the ladies before the search?
(a) To show their papers (b) To leave the house (c) To give him weapons (d) To withdraw from the room
Answer: (d) To withdraw from the room.
Supporting Statement: OFFICER: Will you and the gracious lady your mother please to withdraw whilst we search?

176. How does Raina respond to the officer's suspicion about the balcony?
(a) She agrees with him (b) She becomes frightened (c) She petulantly dismisses it (d) She asks her mother to check
Answer: (c) She petulantly dismisses it.
Supporting Statement: RAINA (petulantly): Nonsense, sir: you can see that there is no one on the balcony.

177. What does Raina do after speaking to the officer?
(a) Locks the door (b) Calls for help (c) Opens the shutters and stands by the curtain (d) Hides behind the curtain
Answer: (c) Opens the shutters and stands by the curtain.
Supporting Statement: (She throws the shutters wide and stands with her back to the curtain...)

178. What happens immediately after Raina opens the shutters?
(a) The officer arrests someone (b) A bullet shatters the window (c) A man jumps out (d) Catherine faints
Answer: (b) A bullet shatters the window.
Supporting Statement: A bullet shatters the glass opposite Raina...

179. How does Raina react to the gunfire?
(a) She faints (b) She screams (c) She gasps but remains still (d) She hides under the bed
Answer: (c) She gasps but remains still.
Supporting Statement: ...Raina, who winks and gasps, but stands her ground...

180. What is Catherine’s reaction to the shots fired?
(a) She hides behind Raina (b) She screams (c) She calls the officer (d) She collapses
Answer: (b) She screams.
Supporting Statement: ...Catherine screams...

181. What does the officer do when the firing starts?
(a) Runs away (b) Fires back (c) Rushes to the balcony shouting (d) Hides under a table
Answer: (c) Rushes to the balcony shouting.
Supporting Statement: ...the officer, with a cry of “Take care!” rushes to the balcony.

182. What does the officer shout at the soldiers in the street?
(a) “Help!” (b) “Cease firing!” (c) “Catch the Serb!” (d) “Protect the lady!”
Answer: (b) “Cease firing!”
Supporting Statement: OFFICER (shouting): Cease firing, damn you!

183. What is the officer’s attitude after scolding the soldiers?
(a) Still angry (b) Embarrassed and polite (c) Proud and arrogant (d) Nervous and apologetic
Answer: (b) Embarrassed and polite.
Supporting Statement: ...then turns to Raina, trying to resume his polite manner.

184. What does the officer ask Raina about the possibility of someone entering?
(a) If she was awake (b) If she saw a shadow (c) If she had locked the door (d) If Louka had told her anything
Answer: (a) If she was awake.
Supporting Statement: OFFICER: Could anyone have got in without your knowledge? Were you asleep?

185. How does Raina respond to the officer’s question about being asleep?
(a) She says she slept deeply (b) She lies and says yes (c) She says she hasn’t been to bed (d) She remains silent
Answer: (c) She says she hasn’t been to bed.
Supporting Statement: RAINA: No: I have not been to bed.

186. Why does Raina ask Louka to stay with her mother?
(a) Because Louka is afraid of soldiers (b) To keep Catherine calm while soldiers search (c) To prevent Louka from discovering the hidden man (d) To ensure her mother isn’t left alone during the commotion
Answer: (d) To ensure her mother isn’t left alone during the commotion
Supporting Statement: RAINA: Don’t leave my mother, Louka, until the soldiers go away.

187. What does Louka's reaction suggest before leaving the room?
(a) She is loyal and obedient (b) She is suspicious and disrespectful (c) She is afraid of being caught (d) She is sympathetic toward Raina
Answer: (b) She is suspicious and disrespectful
Supporting Statement: Louka...purses her lips secretively, laughs insolently, and goes out.

188. What is meant by the man’s expression “a miss is as good as a mile”?
(a) It was a short escape (b) A near failure is still a success (c) He missed something important (d) The balcony was a mile away
Answer: (b) A near failure is still a success
Supporting Statement: A narrow shave; but a miss is as good as a mile.

189. What tone does the man adopt when stepping out from behind the curtain?
(a) Apologetic and ashamed (b) Affable and light-hearted (c) Cold and militaristic (d) Nervous and defensive
Answer: (b) Affable and light-hearted
Supporting Statement: ...and speaks affably.

190. Why does the man wish he had joined the Bulgarian army?
(a) To betray the Serbs (b) Because they are winning (c) For Raina’s sake (d) To escape punishment
Answer: (c) For Raina’s sake
Supporting Statement: I wish for your sake I had joined the Bulgarian army...

191. What does Raina accuse the man of being?
(a) A Bulgarian traitor (b) An Austrian officer (c) A Serbian peasant (d) A mercenary
Answer: (b) An Austrian officer
Supporting Statement: No: you are one of the Austrians who set the Serbs on...

192. According to Raina, what do Austrians do to the Serbs?
(a) Give them weapons (b) Force them to surrender (c) Steal their land (d) Use them to attack Bulgarian freedom
Answer: (d) Use them to attack Bulgarian freedom
Supporting Statement: ...who set the Serbs on to rob us of our national liberty...

193. How does the man attempt to correct Raina’s assumption about his nationality?
(a) He denies being a soldier (b) He claims to be neutral (c) He reveals he is Swiss (d) He refuses to say
Answer: (c) He reveals he is Swiss
Supporting Statement: I am a Swiss, fighting merely as a professional soldier.

194. What justification does the man give for fighting on the Serbian side?
(a) He admires their culture (b) They paid him well (c) They were the first he encountered (d) He was born in Serbia
Answer: (c) They were the first he encountered
Supporting Statement: I joined the Serbs because they came first on the road from Switzerland.

195. How does the man appeal to Raina’s emotions after explaining his background?
(a) He asks her to marry him (b) He tells her she’s beautiful (c) He begs her not to hate him (d) He swears loyalty to Bulgaria
Answer: (c) He begs her not to hate him
Supporting Statement: Don’t hate me, dear young lady.

196. What does the man acknowledge about the outcome of the battle?
(a) It was unfair (b) The Bulgarians barely won (c) They were defeated badly (d) The Serbs surrendered honorably
Answer: (c) They were defeated badly
Supporting Statement: Be generous: you’ve beaten us hollow.

197. What question does Raina pose to challenge the man’s plea for generosity?
(a) Will you surrender your sword? (b) Am I not already generous? (c) Do you believe in liberty? (d) Will you leave peacefully?
Answer: (b) Am I not already generous?
Supporting Statement: RAINA: Have I not been generous?

198. How does the man describe Raina’s behavior up to this point?
(a) Intelligent and discreet (b) Naive and emotional (c) Noble and heroic (d) Stubborn and reckless
Answer: (c) Noble and heroic
Supporting Statement: Noble! Heroic! But I'm not saved yet.

199. Why is the man still concerned despite escaping immediate danger?
(a) He is worried Raina will betray him (b) The pursuit may continue all night (c) His weapon is broken (d) He fears being arrested by Austrians
Answer: (b) The pursuit may continue all night
Supporting Statement: ...but the pursuit will go on all night by fits and starts.

200. When does the man plan to attempt escape?
(a) At dawn (b) When Raina gives him a signal (c) During a lull in the search (d) When Louka returns
Answer: (c) During a lull in the search
Supporting Statement: I must take my chance to get off in a quiet interval.

201. What is the man’s tone when requesting to wait a bit longer?
(a) Desperate (b) Arrogant (c) Pleasant and polite (d) Sarcastic
Answer: (c) Pleasant and polite
Supporting Statement: (Pleasantly) You don’t mind my waiting just a minute or two, do you?

202. How does Raina respond to his request to wait longer?
(a) Refuses him sternly (b) Expresses indifference (c) Approves in polite social fashion (d) Ignores him
Answer: (c) Approves in polite social fashion
Supporting Statement: (putting on her most genteel society manner) Oh, not at all.

203. Where does the man sit after being offered a seat?
(a) On the ottoman (b) On a chair near the window (c) On the bed’s foot (d) On the floor
Answer: (c) On the bed’s foot
Supporting Statement: (He sits on the foot of the bed.)

204. Why does Raina shriek after sitting down?
(a) She sees Louka return (b) The curtain falls (c) She sits on the revolver (d) The man yells suddenly
Answer: (c) She sits on the revolver
Supporting Statement: ...jumps up with a shriek as she sits on the revolver.

205. What does Raina say about the revolver after finding it?
(a) It’s unloaded (b) It’s a symbol of violence (c) It was nearly discovered (d) It belongs to her father
Answer: (c) It was nearly discovered
Supporting Statement: Your revolver. It was staring that officer in the face all the time. What an escape!

206. What is the man's initial reaction when he learns the cause of Raina’s shriek?
(a) Indifferent and bored (b) Angry and aggressive (c) Vexed and dismissive (d) Amused and sarcastic
Answer: (c) Vexed and dismissive
Supporting Statement: THE MAN (vexed at being unnecessarily terrified): Oh, is that all?

207. How does Raina’s behavior change after realizing the man is not a threat?
(a) She becomes more aggressive (b) She grows sarcastically superior (c) She acts flirtatiously (d) She tries to flee
Answer: (b) She grows sarcastically superior
Supporting Statement: RAINA (staring at him rather superciliously...)

208. What does Raina sarcastically offer the man to protect himself?
(a) A chocolate bar (b) Her father’s pistol (c) A knife (d) The unloaded revolver
Answer: (d) The unloaded revolver
Supporting Statement: Pray take it to protect yourself against me.

209. What fact about the revolver surprises Raina?
(a) It was defective (b) It was stolen (c) It was not loaded (d) It belonged to a Bulgarian officer
Answer: (c) It was not loaded
Supporting Statement: No use... there’s nothing in it. It’s not loaded.

210. What does the man carry in place of cartridges in battle?
(a) Bandages (b) Chocolate (c) Coins (d) Maps
Answer: (b) Chocolate
Supporting Statement: I always carry chocolate instead...

211. How does Raina react to the idea of a soldier carrying sweets?
(a) With admiration (b) With confusion (c) With outrage (d) With amusement
Answer: (c) With outrage
Supporting Statement: outraged in her ideals of manhood... Chocolate! Do you stuff your pockets with sweets...

212. What comparison does Raina make to mock the man’s behavior?
(a) A merchant (b) A schoolboy (c) A nurse (d) A coward
Answer: (b) A schoolboy
Supporting Statement: ...like a schoolboy—even in the field?

213. How does the man respond to Raina’s mocking of his chocolate habit?
(a) With pride (b) With denial (c) With shameful agreement (d) With indifference
Answer: (c) With shameful agreement
Supporting Statement: Yes: isn’t it contemptible?

214. What emotion does the man express immediately after speaking about chocolate?
(a) Embarrassment (b) Disgust (c) Hunger (d) Fatigue
Answer: (c) Hunger
Supporting Statement: (Hungrily) I wish I had some now.

215. What gesture does Raina make after the man says he is hungry?
(a) She mocks him (b) She walks away silently (c) She offers sweets from a drawer (d) She tells Louka to bring food
Answer: (c) She offers sweets from a drawer
Supporting Statement: ...returns with a box of confectionery.

216. How does Raina behave while offering the sweets?
(a) Tenderly (b) Scornfully (c) Kindly (d) Nervously
Answer: (b) Scornfully
Supporting Statement: She sails away scornfully to the chest of drawers...

217. How does the man react upon receiving the sweets?
(a) Suspiciously (b) Gratefully and hungrily (c) Emotionlessly (d) Offended
Answer: (b) Gratefully and hungrily
Supporting Statement: You’re an angel! (He gobbles the contents.)

218. What type of sweets does the man recognize in the box?
(a) Toffees (b) Lollipops (c) Caramels (d) Creams
Answer: (d) Creams
Supporting Statement: Creams! Delicious!

219. How does the man explain the difference between young and old soldiers?
(a) By their rank (b) By their bravery (c) By what they carry (d) By their dialect
Answer: (c) By what they carry
Supporting Statement: The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

220. What does the man imply about experience in battle through his chocolate-carrying habit?
(a) Older soldiers are less reliable (b) Food is more practical than bullets (c) Weapons are obsolete (d) Firing is not important
Answer: (b) Food is more practical than bullets
Supporting Statement: You can always tell an old soldier by...

221. What is Raina’s final response after the man finishes the chocolates?
(a) She smiles (b) She snatches and throws the box (c) She asks him to leave (d) She offers him water
Answer: (b) She snatches and throws the box
Supporting Statement: She snatches it contemptuously and throws it away.

222. What assumption does the man make when Raina throws the box?
(a) She is trying to scare him (b) She’s offended (c) She intends to hit him (d) She is cleaning
Answer: (c) She intends to hit him
Supporting Statement: He flinches, thinking she meant to strike him.

223. How does the man interpret Raina’s sudden action of throwing the box?
(a) As flirtation (b) As vengeance for frightening her earlier (c) As an act of compassion (d) As a cultural misunderstanding
Answer: (b) As vengeance for frightening her earlier
Supporting Statement: It’s mean to revenge yourself because I frightened you just now.

224. What claim does Raina make about her own courage?
(a) That she has fought in battle (b) That she is braver than most men (c) That she is as brave as he is (d) That she would kill to protect her country
Answer: (c) That she is as brave as he is
Supporting Statement: I think I am at heart as brave as you.

225. According to the man, why is he so nervous at this point?
(a) He has been running without food (b) He is terrified of being discovered (c) He has been under fire for three days (d) He knows Raina might betray him
Answer: (c) He has been under fire for three days
Supporting Statement: You haven’t been under fire for three days as I have... I’m as nervous as a mouse.

226. What does the man suggest Raina should do to him if she wants to see him cry?
(a) Offer him food (b) Scold him like a nurse scolds a boy (c) Threaten him with a pistol (d) Ask about his past
Answer: (b) Scold him like a nurse scolds a boy
Supporting Statement: ...scold me just as if I were a little boy and you my nurse.

227. How does Raina react to the man’s suggestion to scold him?
(a) She laughs at him (b) She obeys reluctantly (c) She becomes emotional and refuses (d) She calls for help
Answer: (c) She becomes emotional and refuses
Supporting Statement: I’m sorry. I won’t scold you.

228. What shift occurs in Raina after she shows sympathy?
(a) She grows more attached to the man (b) She becomes hostile (c) She pulls back and regains her formality (d) She bursts into tears
Answer: (c) She pulls back and regains her formality
Supporting Statement: She draws back and becomes formal again.

229. According to the man, what are the only two kinds of soldiers?
(a) Brave and cowardly (b) Bulgarian and Serbian (c) Trained and untrained (d) Old and young
Answer: (d) Old and young
Supporting Statement: There are only two sorts of soldiers: old ones and young ones.

230. What does the man say about the experience level of the Bulgarian troops?
(a) They are well-trained professionals (b) They are highly disciplined (c) They’ve never experienced real battle (d) They are cunning and ruthless
Answer: (c) They’ve never experienced real battle
Supporting Statement: ...half of your fellows never smelt powder before.

231. How does the man explain the Bulgarian army’s victory over his side?
(a) Better equipment (b) Numerical advantage (c) Ignorance of military tactics (d) Higher morale
Answer: (c) Ignorance of military tactics
Supporting Statement: Sheer ignorance of the art of war, nothing else.

232. What military maneuver does the man criticize as unprofessional?
(a) Retreating under fire (b) Firing at their own troops (c) Charging cavalry at machine guns (d) Ambushing civilians
Answer: (c) Charging cavalry at machine guns
Supporting Statement: ...throw a regiment of cavalry on a battery of machine guns...

233. What was the man’s reaction upon seeing the cavalry charge?
(a) He admired their bravery (b) He felt enraged (c) He couldn’t believe his eyes (d) He ordered his men to retreat
Answer: (c) He couldn’t believe his eyes
Supporting Statement: I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it.

234. How does Raina respond to the mention of the cavalry charge?
(a) With horror (b) With renewed patriotic excitement (c) With indifference (d) With criticism
Answer: (b) With renewed patriotic excitement
Supporting Statement: ...her dreams of glory return...

235. What does Raina ask the man to do after hearing about the cavalry charge?
(a) Describe it to her (b) Leave her room (c) Apologize to her soldiers (d) Draw it on paper
Answer: (a) Describe it to her
Supporting Statement: Oh, tell me about it. Describe it to me.

236. What metaphor does the man use to describe the sight of a cavalry charge?
(a) Falling dominoes (b) Bullets hitting a wall (c) Peas thrown at a window pane (d) Fireworks in a storm
Answer: (c) Peas thrown at a window pane
Supporting Statement: It’s like slinging a handful of peas against a window pane...

237. What is Raina’s romanticized idea of the cavalry charge?
(a) It’s cruel and chaotic (b) It’s irrational and messy (c) It’s led by the bravest hero (d) It should be banned
Answer: (c) It’s led by the bravest hero
Supporting Statement: Yes, first One! the bravest of the brave!

238. How does the man describe the lead cavalryman in reality?
(a) Charging valiantly (b) Pulling at his horse to stop (c) Waving a flag (d) Leading others courageously
Answer: (b) Pulling at his horse to stop
Supporting Statement: ...the poor devil pulling at his horse.

239. Why does the man say the lead cavalryman is pulling at his horse?
(a) To slow it down and stay with the others (b) Because the horse is injured (c) To dodge bullets (d) He is afraid of trampling someone
Answer: (a) To slow it down and stay with the others
Supporting Statement: It’s running away with him... wants to get there before the others and be killed?

240. How can one distinguish young cavalry soldiers during a charge, according to the man?
(a) They wear different uniforms (b) They shout the loudest (c) They appear wild and reckless (d) They ride the largest horses
Answer: (c) They appear wild and reckless
Supporting Statement: You can tell the young ones by their wildness and their slashing.

241. How do older cavalry soldiers behave in a charge?
(a) They retreat early (b) They charge with discipline under guard (c) They act like heroes (d) They dismount before charging
Answer: (b) They charge with discipline under guard
Supporting Statement: ...come bunched up under the number one guard...

242. What do the older soldiers understand about a cavalry charge under machine gun fire?
(a) They have a chance to win if they ride fast enough (b) They are unlikely to survive and are just projectiles (c) Their bravery will change the outcome (d) They will be protected by infantry
Answer: (b) They are unlikely to survive and are just projectiles
Supporting Statement: ...they know that they’re mere projectiles...

243. What kind of wounds does the man say are most common in cavalry charges?
(a) Bullet wounds (b) Arm fractures (c) Broken knees (d) Head injuries
Answer: (c) Broken knees
Supporting Statement: The wounds are mostly broken knees...

244. What is the cause of the broken knees mentioned by the man?
(a) Heavy armor (b) Collisions between horses (c) Tripping on terrain (d) Exploding grenades
Answer: (b) Collisions between horses
Supporting Statement: ...from the horses cannoning together.

245. What tone does the man use when describing the cavalry charge?
(a) Romantic and dramatic (b) Sarcastic and critical (c) Fearful and regretful (d) Patriotic and admiring
Answer: (b) Sarcastic and critical
Supporting Statement: It’s like slinging a handful of peas against a window pane...

◼️ 246. What trait does Raina insist the first man in the charge possessed?

(a) Cunning  (b) Bravery  (c) Foolishness  (d) Humility
✅ Answer: (b) Bravery
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I don’t believe the first man is a coward. I believe he is a hero!”

◼️ 247. What was the man’s tone when he responded to Raina’s belief in the first man’s heroism?
(a) Sarcastic  (b) Angry  (c) Good-humored  (d) Formal
✅ Answer: (c) Good-humored
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: (goodhumoredly)

◼️ 248. What phrase does the man use to mockingly describe the charging soldier’s style?
(a) Like a circus clown  (b) Like a blind swordsman  (c) Like Don Quixote at the windmills  (d) Like a gladiator in a coliseum
✅ Answer: (c) Like Don Quixote at the windmills
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...charging like Don Quixote at the windmills.”

◼️ 249. What physical features of the charging man does the speaker mention?
(a) Bronze skin and sharp nose  (b) Flashing eyes and lovely moustache  (c) Scarred face and heavy build  (d) Red hair and fierce grin
✅ Answer: (b) Flashing eyes and lovely moustache
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with flashing eyes and lovely moustache...”

◼️ 250. What did the troops nearly do when they saw the man charge?
(a) Cry  (b) Applaud  (c) Salute  (d) Burst with laughter
✅ Answer: (d) Burst with laughter
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We nearly burst with laughter at him...”

◼️ 251. Why couldn't the speaker and his fellow soldiers return fire?
(a) They were outnumbered  (b) Their rifles were jammed  (c) They received the wrong cartridges  (d) The fog obscured vision
✅ Answer: (c) They received the wrong cartridges
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...they’d sent us the wrong cartridges...”

◼️ 252. How long were they unable to fire a shot?
(a) 30 minutes  (b) 5 minutes  (c) 10 minutes  (d) 1 hour
✅ Answer: (c) 10 minutes
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...couldn’t fire a shot for the next ten minutes...”

◼️ 253. What did the speaker say they laughed at after hearing the cartridge news?
(a) Their commander’s face  (b) The other side of their mouths  (c) The galloping horses  (d) The sergeant’s panic
✅ Answer: (b) The other side of their mouths
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...we laughed at the other side of our mouths.”

◼️ 254. How did the speaker describe his emotional state during the charge?
(a) Brave and thrilled  (b) Calm but focused  (c) Sick and helpless  (d) Indifferent
✅ Answer: (c) Sick and helpless
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I never felt so sick in my life...”

◼️ 255. What did the speaker say he carried instead of cartridges?
(a) Dried meat  (b) Chocolate  (c) Water flask  (d) Notes
✅ Answer: (b) Chocolate
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...nothing but chocolate.”

◼️ 256. What was the state of their weapons?
(a) Unjammed but inaccurate  (b) Loaded with grenades  (c) No bayonets or ammunition  (d) Only ceremonial swords
✅ Answer: (c) No bayonets or ammunition
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We’d no bayonets—nothing.”

◼️ 257. What happened to the regiment of the charging man?
(a) They retreated tactfully  (b) They surrendered  (c) They were completely wiped out  (d) They ambushed the enemy
✅ Answer: (c) They were completely wiped out
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Of course, they just cut us to bits.”

◼️ 258. How does the speaker describe Don Quixote’s belief about his own performance?
(a) Cowardly and shameful  (b) A necessary sacrifice  (c) A brilliant and clever move  (d) A coordinated tactic
✅ Answer: (c) A brilliant and clever move
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...thinking he’d done the cleverest thing ever known...”

◼️ 259. What does the speaker think should have happened to the charging officer?
(a) A medal of valor  (b) A statue in his honour  (c) Court-martial  (d) Promotion to general
✅ Answer: (c) Court-martial
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he ought to be courtmartialled for it.”

◼️ 260. What does the speaker mean by “only the pistol missed fire”?
(a) They had one small hope  (b) It was a miraculous escape  (c) The regiment survived due to bad aim  (d) Their suicidal charge failed only technically
✅ Answer: (d) Their suicidal charge failed only technically
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...simply committed suicide—only the pistol missed fire, that’s all.”

◼️ 261. What literary figure is used to describe the charging soldier’s style?

(a) Hamlet  (b) Don Juan  (c) Don Quixote  (d) Macbeth
✅ Answer: (c) Don Quixote
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...charging like Don Quixote at the windmills.”

◼️ 262. What is the symbolic meaning of “laughing at the other side of our mouths”?
(a) An expression of physical pain  (b) A sudden shift from joy to distress  (c) Mocking others  (d) Hiding sadness
✅ Answer: (b) A sudden shift from joy to distress
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implies a reversal of mood due to shocking news.

◼️ 263. What is the significance of the comparison “like a drum major”?
(a) Suggests musical skill  (b) Implies control and discipline  (c) Mocks showy but pointless leadership  (d) Symbolizes respect and authority
✅ Answer: (c) Mocks showy but pointless leadership
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...flourishing like a drum major...”

◼️ 264. What is the apparent vs. real meaning behind Raina’s statement: “I believe he is a hero”?

(a) She admires discipline / She’s romanticizing battle  (b) She praises his strategy / She’s deceived by glamour  (c) She respects military order / She knows war is painful  (d) She loves his bravery / She ignores its foolishness
✅ Answer: (d) She loves his bravery / She ignores its foolishness
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her notion of heroism is based on appearance, not consequence.

◼️ 265. What is the inner implication of the phrase “suicide—only the pistol missed fire”?
(a) The regiment narrowly escaped death  (b) The action was brave but unlucky  (c) The decision was reckless and led to ruin  (d) A misfired gun cost them the battle
✅ Answer: (c) The decision was reckless and led to ruin
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Suggests blind bravado led to certain destruction.

◼️ 266. How does Raina react emotionally when the man mocks her fiancé?

(a) Calm and amused.  (b) Deeply wounded but steadfast.  (c) Indifferent and silent.  (d) Violently angry.
✅ Answer: (b) Deeply wounded but steadfast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(deeply wounded, but steadfastly loyal to her ideals)”

◼️ 267. What does Raina bring out from the chest of drawers?
(a) A letter.  (b) A medal.  (c) A photograph.  (d) A revolver.
✅ Answer: (c) A photograph.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She takes the portrait from its stand and brings it to him.”

◼️ 268. How does the man react upon recognizing the person in the portrait?
(a) Surprised and silent.  (b) Regretful and reverent.  (c) Sorry and amused.  (d) Dismissive and rude.
✅ Answer: (c) Sorry and amused.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’m really very sorry… He stifles a laugh.”

◼️ 269. What emotion does the man struggle to suppress upon seeing the portrait?
(a) Tears.  (b) Laughter.  (c) Anger.  (d) Shock.
✅ Answer: (b) Laughter.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(chokes with suppressed laughter)”

◼️ 270. What accusation does the man subtly make regarding Raina's behavior?
(a) She was dishonest about her wealth.  (b) She led him on emotionally.  (c) She exaggerated the battle story.  (d) She supported cowardice.
✅ Answer: (b) She led him on emotionally.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Was it fair to lead me on?”

◼️ 271. How does Raina respond when she sees him laugh at the portrait?
(a) Joins in laughter.  (b) Cries softly.  (c) Sternly demands it back.  (d) Rips the photo.
✅ Answer: (c) Sternly demands it back.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Give me back the portrait, sir.”

◼️ 272. How does the man react when asked to return the portrait?
(a) Hesitates.  (b) Refuses angrily.  (c) Hands it back with remorse.  (d) Crumples it.
✅ Answer: (c) Hands it back with remorse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with sincere remorse) Of course. Certainly.”

◼️ 273. What dramatic gesture does Raina perform before replacing the portrait?
(a) Cries over it.  (b) Throws it aside.  (c) Kisses it deliberately.  (d) Tears it dramatically.
✅ Answer: (c) Kisses it deliberately.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She deliberately kisses it, and looks him straight in the face...”

◼️ 274. What does the man suggest about Sergius possibly knowing?
(a) His promotion was political.  (b) That the enemy would retreat.  (c) About the cartridge issue.  (d) That Raina was watching.
✅ Answer: (c) About the cartridge issue.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Most likely he had got wind of the cartridge business somehow...”

◼️ 275. What does Raina interpret from the man’s suggestion about Sergius?
(a) He was wise.  (b) He was clever.  (c) He was a coward and pretender.  (d) He was lucky.
✅ Answer: (c) He was a coward and pretender.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That is to say, he was a pretender and a coward!”

◼️ 276. Why didn’t the man make his criticism earlier?
(a) He was unaware of the truth.  (b) He didn’t want to upset Raina.  (c) He feared her reaction.  (d) He didn’t dare say it.
✅ Answer: (d) He didn’t dare say it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You did not dare say that before.”

◼️ 277. How does the man describe Raina’s inability to understand his views?
(a) As emotional blindness.  (b) As unprofessional stubbornness.  (c) As feminine vanity.  (d) As not seeing the professional point of view.
✅ Answer: (d) As not seeing the professional point of view.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I can’t make you see it from the professional point of view.”

◼️ 278. What gesture does the man make while expressing despair over Raina’s idealism?
(a) Sighs dramatically.  (b) Falls to his knees.  (c) A comic gesture of despair.  (d) Stamps his foot.
✅ Answer: (c) A comic gesture of despair.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with a comic gesture of despair)”

◼️ 279. What interrupts the conversation toward the end of this passage?
(a) A servant entering.  (b) The sound of gunfire.  (c) A knock on the door.  (d) Thunder.
✅ Answer: (b) The sound of gunfire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the firing begins again in the distance.”

◼️ 280. What is Raina’s final remark after hearing the distant shots?
(a) “They’re retreating.”  (b) “He will be safe.”  (c) “So much the better for you.”  (d) “Go back to your people.”
✅ Answer: (c) “So much the better for you.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(sternly, as she sees him listening to the shots)...”

◼️ 281. What literary figure is evoked again when the man laughs at the charge?

(a) Hercules.  (b) Don Quixote.  (c) Napoleon.  (d) Hamlet.
✅ Answer: (b) Don Quixote.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Implied reference when he says, “charging the windmills...”

◼️ 282. What does the portrait symbolize to Raina?
(a) Wealth and inheritance.  (b) Romantic ideals and loyalty.  (c) Military deception.  (d) Childhood nostalgia.
✅ Answer: (b) Romantic ideals and loyalty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her kiss before returning it shows reverence and devotion.

◼️ 283. What is the tone of “with a comic gesture of despair”?
(a) Heroic and bold.  (b) Ironic and theatrical.  (c) Logical and cold.  (d) Sad and bitter.
✅ Answer: (b) Ironic and theatrical.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He uses humor to cope with Raina’s seriousness.

◼️ 284. What is the deeper meaning behind the man saying “Was it fair to lead me on?”

(a) He’s confronting Raina’s military views.  (b) He feels emotionally deceived.  (c) He is sarcastically accusing her.  (d) He’s praising her charm.
✅ Answer: (b) He feels emotionally deceived.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Indicates romantic misunderstanding and perceived emotional manipulation.

◼️ 285. What does Raina’s final line imply: “So much the better for you”?
(a) Bitterness and wounded pride.  (b) Reluctant forgiveness.  (c) Hope for peace.  (d) Indifference to war.
✅ Answer: (a) Bitterness and wounded pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Delivered sternly as a reaction to emotional hurt and frustration.

◼️ 286. What does Raina remind the man of when asserting moral power?

(a) His poor health.  (b) That she is his hostess.  (c) That he is her enemy and at her mercy.  (d) His cowardice.
✅ Answer: (c) That he is her enemy and at her mercy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You are my enemy; and you are at my mercy.”

◼️ 287. How does the man respond to Raina’s assertion of power?
(a) With anger.  (b) With submission and agreement.  (c) By denying her claim.  (d) By calling for help.
✅ Answer: (b) With submission and agreement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ah, true, dear young lady: you’re always right.”

◼️ 288. What specific act of kindness does the man say he will remember forever?
(a) Letting him sleep.  (b) Her promise of safety.  (c) The chocolate creams.  (d) Her not calling the police.
✅ Answer: (c) The chocolate creams.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I shall remember those three chocolate creams.”

◼️ 289. How does the man describe Raina’s act of giving chocolates?
(a) Unmilitary but divine.  (b) Foolish and unnecessary.  (c) Formal and cold.  (d) Expected and polite.
✅ Answer: (a) Unmilitary but divine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It was unsoldierly; but it was angelic.”

◼️ 290. How does Raina react when the man mocks her fiancé?
(a) With laughter.  (b) By threatening arrest.  (c) By deciding he must leave.  (d) By forgiving him.
✅ Answer: (c) By deciding he must leave.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You cannot stay here after what you have just said...”

◼️ 291. What method does Raina suggest for the man’s escape?
(a) Disguise as a servant.  (b) Through the waterpipe.  (c) Hidden under a couch.  (d) Escorted by her father.
✅ Answer: (b) Through the waterpipe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...see whether it is safe for you to climb down into the street.”

◼️ 292. How does the man react to the suggestion of climbing down?
(a) Confidently accepts.  (b) Panics and refuses.  (c) Laughs at her idea.  (d) Starts climbing immediately.
✅ Answer: (b) Panics and refuses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Stop! Wait! I can’t! I daren’t!”

◼️ 293. What reason does the man give for being able to climb the pipe earlier?
(a) He was lighter then.  (b) It was night.  (c) Death was behind him.  (d) He had help.
✅ Answer: (c) Death was behind him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I came up it fast enough with death behind me.”

◼️ 294. What does the man claim makes him unable to descend now?
(a) His injuries.  (b) Lack of courage.  (c) Cold blood and giddiness.  (d) The crowd outside.
✅ Answer: (c) Cold blood and giddiness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But to face it now in cold blood!... it makes me giddy.”

◼️ 295. What dramatic action does the man take after refusing to escape?
(a) Runs away.  (b) Tries to fight.  (c) Sinks in despair on the ottoman.  (d) Begs for mercy.
✅ Answer: (c) Sinks in despair on the ottoman.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He sinks on the ottoman... deepest dejection.”

◼️ 296. How does Raina’s attitude change after seeing his despair?
(a) More severe.  (b) Indifferent.  (c) Pitying and maternal.  (d) Mocking.
✅ Answer: (c) Pitying and maternal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She stoops over him almost maternally...”

◼️ 297. What phrase does Raina use to mock the man’s lack of courage?
(a) Milk-and-water man.  (b) A chocolate cream soldier.  (c) My delicate prisoner.  (d) Velvet fighter.
✅ Answer: (b) A chocolate cream soldier.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, you are a very poor soldier—a chocolate cream soldier.”

◼️ 298. How does Raina try to motivate the man?
(a) By insulting him.  (b) By threatening capture.  (c) By reminding him it’s braver to act than be caught.  (d) By offering more chocolate.
✅ Answer: (c) By reminding him it’s braver to act than be caught.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...it takes less courage to climb down than to face capture.”

◼️ 299. What does the man equate capture with?
(a) Death.  (b) Dishonor.  (c) Torture.  (d) Victory.
✅ Answer: (a) Death.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, capture only means death.”

◼️ 300. What is the man’s tone when he dreams of death?
(a) Terrified.  (b) Resigned and dreamy.  (c) Defiant.  (d) Hysterical.
✅ Answer: (b) Resigned and dreamy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(dreamily, lulled by her voice)”

◼️ 301. What does the waterpipe symbolically represent?

(a) Raina’s power.  (b) The absurdity of war.  (c) A test of real courage.  (d) A ladder to freedom.
✅ Answer: (c) A test of real courage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The man climbs up under fear, but refuses when calm—revealing true bravery.

◼️ 302. “Chocolate cream soldier” is an example of which literary device?
(a) Simile.  (b) Metaphor.  (c) Irony.  (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes a soldier sweet but soft, unfit for real battle.

◼️ 303. What is the tone of the phrase “death is sleep—oh, sleep, sleep, sleep!”?
(a) Satirical.  (b) Euphoric.  (c) Melancholic and poetic.  (d) Coldly logical.
✅ Answer: (c) Melancholic and poetic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The repetition evokes longing for peaceful escape through death.

◼️ 304. What is the inner meaning of the man’s refusal to climb down?

(a) He is too proud.  (b) He desires to stay near Raina.  (c) He is mentally and emotionally exhausted.  (d) He suspects a trap.
✅ Answer: (c) He is mentally and emotionally exhausted.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His collapse into despair shows deeper psychological fatigue than mere fear.

◼️ 305. What does the expression “death ten times over first” truly reveal?
(a) His suicidal tendencies.  (b) His desire for glory.  (c) His dread of small risks over large fate.  (d) His bravery.
✅ Answer: (c) His dread of small risks over large fate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Prefers the abstraction of death to the reality of action—paradoxical fear.

◼️ 306. How does Raina’s tone change as she observes the man’s exhaustion?

(a) Sarcastic.  (b) Commanding.  (c) Soft and curious.  (d) Cold and formal.
✅ Answer: (c) Soft and curious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(softly and wonderingly, catching the rhythm of his weariness)”

◼️ 307. How many hours of continuous sleep has the man had since the war began?
(a) Five.  (b) Three.  (c) None.  (d) Less than two.
✅ Answer: (d) Less than two.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ve not had two hours’ undisturbed sleep since the war began.”

◼️ 308. What role does the man say he holds in the army?
(a) Infantryman.  (b) On the staff.  (c) Medical unit.  (d) Cavalry.
✅ Answer: (b) On the staff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’m on the staff: you don’t know what that means.”

◼️ 309. For how long has the man not closed his eyes?
(a) 12 hours.  (b) 24 hours.  (c) 36 hours.  (d) 48 hours.
✅ Answer: (c) 36 hours.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I haven’t closed my eyes for thirty-six hours.”

◼️ 310. How does the man motivate himself to take action despite fatigue?
(a) By recalling orders.  (b) By saying duty conquers discomfort.  (c) By quoting military rules.  (d) By visualizing home.
✅ Answer: (b) By saying duty conquers discomfort.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You can always do a thing when you know it must be done.”

◼️ 311. What phrase does he use to scold himself into action?
(a) Foolish officer.  (b) Staff donkey.  (c) You coward.  (d) Chocolate cream soldier.
✅ Answer: (d) Chocolate cream soldier.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do you hear that, you chocolate cream soldier?”

◼️ 312. What is Raina’s immediate concern when the man moves toward the window?
(a) That he will steal something.  (b) That he may fall.  (c) That he will escape silently.  (d) That he is angry.
✅ Answer: (b) That he may fall.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But if you fall?”

◼️ 313. What is the man’s lighthearted response to the danger of falling?
(a) “I’ll break my leg, not my spirit.”  (b) “I'll land on my sword.”  (c) “Stones will feel like feathers.”  (d) “I’ve done worse.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Stones will feel like feathers.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I shall sleep as if the stones were a feather bed.”

◼️ 314. What interrupts his attempt to escape?
(a) Raina screams.  (b) A loud knock.  (c) A burst of gunfire.  (d) A barking dog.
✅ Answer: (c) A burst of gunfire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is a terrible burst of firing in the street beneath.”

◼️ 315. How does Raina physically stop him from leaving?
(a) By locking the door.  (b) By blocking the window.  (c) By grabbing his shoulder.  (d) By pulling his arm.
✅ Answer: (c) By grabbing his shoulder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She catches him by the shoulder, and turns him quite round.”

◼️ 316. What is the man’s professional reaction to the danger?
(a) He panics.  (b) He becomes emotional.  (c) He acts with cool detachment.  (d) He refuses to go.
✅ Answer: (c) He acts with cool detachment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Never mind: this sort of thing is all in my day’s work.”

◼️ 317. What instructions does the man give Raina before opening the shutter?
(a) Keep talking loudly.  (b) Fetch her father.  (c) Put out the candles and stay away.  (d) Write a letter to the army.
✅ Answer: (c) Put out the candles and stay away.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Put out the candles... keep away from the window.”

◼️ 318. Why does the man tell her to stay away from the window?
(a) So she doesn’t fall.  (b) So she won’t distract him.  (c) To avoid being seen.  (d) Because he’s angry.
✅ Answer: (c) To avoid being seen.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If they see me, they’re sure to have a shot at me.”

◼️ 319. Why does Raina plead with him not to go?
(a) She wants to hide him.  (b) It’s bright moonlight.  (c) The guards are inside.  (d) She loves him.
✅ Answer: (b) It’s bright moonlight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It’s bright moonlight. I’ll save you...”

◼️ 320. What emotion does Raina express when she says, “You want me to save you, don’t you?”
(a) Anger.  (b) Manipulative affection.  (c) Desperation and concern.  (d) Arrogance.
✅ Answer: (c) Desperation and concern.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You want me to save you, don’t you?”

◼️ 321. What does the phrase “chocolate cream soldier” symbolize in this context?

(a) A sweet lover.  (b) A dreamy youth.  (c) A soldier lacking in real courage.  (d) A patriotic officer.
✅ Answer: (c) A soldier lacking in real courage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used to mock softness in contrast to military hardness.

◼️ 322. The line “stones were a feather bed” is an example of which figure of speech?
(a) Metaphor.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Simile.  (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...sleep as if the stones were a feather bed.”

◼️ 323. What does the burst of firing symbolize in the scene?
(a) The end of the war.  (b) A signal of love.  (c) The external danger closing in.  (d) A dream state.
✅ Answer: (c) The external danger closing in.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is a terrible burst of firing in the street beneath.”

◼️ 324. What is the inner meaning of the man’s phrase “this sort of thing is all in my day’s work”?

(a) He is used to romance.  (b) He downplays danger.  (c) He expects Raina to help.  (d) He believes in routine.
✅ Answer: (b) He downplays danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Shows calm professionalism in the face of potential death.

◼️ 325. What does the expression “I really don’t want to be troublesome” reveal about the man’s character?
(a) He is proud.  (b) He avoids gratitude.  (c) He maintains politeness even in danger.  (d) He mocks Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) He maintains politeness even in danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Polite understatement under stress defines his composed nature.

◼️ 326. What does Raina ask the man to do first in this extract?

(a) Sit down.  (b) Speak more loudly.  (c) Come away from the window.  (d) Take off his uniform.
✅ Answer: (c) Come away from the window.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Come away from the window—please.”

◼️ 327. How does Raina guide the man from the window?
(a) She pushes him.  (b) She coaxes him back to the middle of the room.  (c) She pulls the curtains.  (d) She threatens him.
✅ Answer: (b) She coaxes him back to the middle of the room.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She coaxes him back to the middle of the room.)”

◼️ 328. What does Raina want the man to trust?
(a) Her future husband.  (b) The Bulgarian army.  (c) Their hospitality.  (d) Her judgement.
✅ Answer: (c) Their hospitality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You must trust to our hospitality.”

◼️ 329. What family name does Raina reveal she belongs to?
(a) Petkovs.  (b) Petkoffs.  (c) Petronovs.  (d) Petrofs.
✅ Answer: (b) Petkoffs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am a Petkoff.”

◼️ 330. How does the man respond to her revelation about her family name?
(a) With surprise.  (b) He asks what it means.  (c) He dismisses it.  (d) He praises it.
✅ Answer: (b) He asks what it means.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What’s that?”

◼️ 331. How does Raina react to the man’s ignorance of her name?
(a) Indignantly.  (b) With amusement.  (c) Calmly.  (d) With empathy.
✅ Answer: (a) Indignantly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(rather indignantly).”

◼️ 332. What excuse does the man give for not remembering her name?
(a) He was distracted.  (b) He’s too tired to think.  (c) He’s uneducated.  (d) He slept through it.
✅ Answer: (b) He’s too tired to think.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Forgive me: I’m too tired to think...”

◼️ 333. What military rank does Raina say her father holds?
(a) Captain.  (b) Colonel.  (c) Major.  (d) General.
✅ Answer: (c) Major.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is (proudly) a Major.”

◼️ 334. How does the man pretend to react to her father’s rank?
(a) With awe.  (b) He mocks it.  (c) He’s unimpressed.  (d) He praises the army.
✅ Answer: (a) With awe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(pretending to be deeply impressed).”

◼️ 335. What mistake did the man make regarding the balcony?
(a) He thought they had a balcony at all.  (b) He assumed it was locked.  (c) He thought there was only a private balcony.  (d) He assumed stairs didn’t exist.
✅ Answer: (d) He assumed stairs didn’t exist.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You shewed great ignorance in thinking that it was necessary to climb up...”

◼️ 336. According to Raina, how many rows of windows does their house have?
(a) One.  (b) Two rows.  (c) Three rows.  (d) Four rows.
✅ Answer: (b) Two rows.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...ours is the only private house that has two rows of windows.”

◼️ 337. What does Raina reveal is inside to reach the upper floor?
(a) A secret ladder.  (b) A flight of stairs.  (c) An elevator.  (d) A rope.
✅ Answer: (b) A flight of stairs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is a flight of stairs inside to get up and down by.”

◼️ 338. How does the man respond to Raina’s mention of stairs?
(a) With sarcasm.  (b) With wonder at the luxury.  (c) He ignores it.  (d) He praises her intelligence.
✅ Answer: (b) With wonder at the luxury.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Stairs! How grand! You live in great luxury indeed...”

◼️ 339. What does Raina ask him about that signifies education and refinement?
(a) A piano.  (b) A library.  (c) Opera season.  (d) A gallery.
✅ Answer: (b) A library.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do you know what a library is?”

◼️ 340. How does the man define a library?
(a) As a place of learning.  (b) A collection of maps.  (c) A roomful of books.  (d) A quiet retreat.
✅ Answer: (c) A roomful of books.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A library? A roomful of books.”

◼️ 341. What claim does Raina make about the uniqueness of their library?
(a) It’s the biggest in Europe.  (b) It’s the only one in Bulgaria.  (c) It has rare manuscripts.  (d) It was built by her father.
✅ Answer: (b) It’s the only one in Bulgaria.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes, we have one, the only one in Bulgaria.”

◼️ 342. What cultural marker does Raina mention to highlight their sophistication?
(a) Annual operas in Bucharest.  (b) Dinners in Vienna.  (c) Horse races in Paris.  (d) Art fairs in Milan.
✅ Answer: (a) Annual operas in Bucharest.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We go to Bucharest every year for the opera season.”

◼️ 343. How long did Raina spend in Vienna, according to her?
(a) Two weeks.  (b) One month.  (c) Six months.  (d) A year.
✅ Answer: (b) One month.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have spent a whole month in Vienna.”

◼️ 344. How does the man acknowledge Raina’s worldliness?
(a) He praises her taste.  (b) He admits she knows the world.  (c) He disputes her claim.  (d) He changes the subject.
✅ Answer: (b) He admits she knows the world.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I saw at once that you knew the world.”

◼️ 345. What overall impression does Raina want to convey about her household?
(a) Basic and rustic.  (b) Simple but honest.  (c) Civilized and refined.  (d) Frugal and modest.
✅ Answer: (c) Civilized and refined.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...not in the house of ignorant country folk ... but among civilized people.”

◼️ 346. What does the “waterpipe” symbolize in this passage?

(a) Escape.  (b) Arrogance.  (c) Imprisonment.  (d) Wealth.
✅ Answer: (a) Escape.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Represents the only means he considered but was mistaken.

◼️ 347. Raina calling herself “a Petkoff” conveys which figure of speech?
(a) Simile.  (b) Metaphor.  (c) Symbol.  (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbol.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to her high social status and family pride.

◼️ 348. The phrase “you live in great luxury indeed” is an example of what tone?
(a) Sarcastic compliment.  (b) Genuine admiration.  (c) Formal politeness.  (d) Dismissive scorn.
✅ Answer: (a) Sarcastic compliment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He pretends to praise but mocks extravagance.

◼️ 349. What does “a roomful of books” evoke figuratively?
(a) Wealth.  (b) Ignorance.  (c) Education and culture.  (d) Isolation.
✅ Answer: (c) Education and culture.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Symbolizes refinement and intellectual status.

◼️ 350. Mentioning Bucharest and Vienna functions as what rhetorical device?
(a) Parallelism.  (b) Enumeration.  (c) Contrast.  (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Enumeration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Lists cultural credentials to impress the man.

◼️ 351. What is the inner meaning of “you do not yet know in whose house you are”?

(a) An implied threat.  (b) Hinting at hospitality.  (c) A boast about wealth.  (d) A joke.
✅ Answer: (b) Hinting at hospitality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Underlines her social leverage and their duty to him.

◼️ 352. What does the man’s repeated “Oh, yes, of course” reveal?
(a) Genuine respect.  (b) Exhaustion and insincerity.  (c) Strategic flattery.  (d) Confusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Exhaustion and insincerity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He is too tired to be attentive, thus reflexively agreeable.

◼️ 353. What does “How stupid of me!” subtly imply?
(a) Genuine remorse.  (b) Playful self-deprecation.  (c) Noble humility.  (d) Serious apology.
✅ Answer: (b) Playful self-deprecation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Hinting that he is playfully mocking his own mistake.

◼️ 354. What inner tone does Raina express by asking “Do you know what a library is?”
(a) Condescension.  (b) Genuine curiosity.  (c) Worry.  (d) Admiration.
✅ Answer: (a) Condescension.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She patronizes him to highlight his ignorance.

◼️ 355. What is the real import behind “I saw at once that you knew the world”?
(a) Merit of education.  (b) A compliment masking surprise.  (c) Genuine praise.  (d) A flirtatious remark.
✅ Answer: (b) A compliment masking surprise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He is amazed by her sophistication but couches it in praise.

◼️ 356. Which opera does Raina refer to in this passage?

(a) Carmen.  (b) Ernani.  (c) Tosca.  (d) La Traviata.
✅ Answer: (b) Ernani.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Have you ever seen the opera of Ernani?”

◼️ 357. How does the man describe the opera he thinks she means?
(a) A comedy with a prince.  (b) A tragedy about a queen.  (c) One with a devil in red velvet.  (d) A ballet performance.
✅ Answer: (c) One with a devil in red velvet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the devil in it in red velvet, and a soldier’s chorus?”

◼️ 358. What is Raina’s reaction to the man’s confusion about the opera?
(a) She is amused.  (b) She corrects him gently.  (c) She scolds him.  (d) She reacts contemptuously.
✅ Answer: (d) She reacts contemptuously.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(contemptuously). No!”

◼️ 359. What does the man do to show his exhaustion during their conversation?
(a) He sits down.  (b) He stifles a heavy sigh.  (c) He closes his eyes.  (d) He lies down.
✅ Answer: (b) He stifles a heavy sigh.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(stifling a heavy sigh of weariness)”

◼️ 360. Who takes refuge in the castle in the opera Raina describes?
(a) A prince.  (b) Ernani.  (c) A Roman general.  (d) A French soldier.
✅ Answer: (b) Ernani.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...where Ernani, flying from his foes just as you are tonight...”

◼️ 361. Whose castle does Ernani take refuge in?
(a) A friend’s.  (b) His brother’s.  (c) His bitterest enemy’s.  (d) A military camp.
✅ Answer: (c) His bitterest enemy’s.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...takes refuge in the castle of his bitterest enemy...”

◼️ 362. What nationality is the noble in the opera according to Raina?
(a) Italian.  (b) German.  (c) Castilian.  (d) Turkish.
✅ Answer: (c) Castilian.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...an old Castilian noble.”

◼️ 363. What does the noble in the opera do when enemies demand Ernani?
(a) Betrays him.  (b) Captures him.  (c) Refuses to give him up.  (d) Hands him over.
✅ Answer: (c) Refuses to give him up.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The noble refuses to give him up.”

◼️ 364. According to Raina, what principle does the noble uphold?
(a) Loyalty to king.  (b) Romantic love.  (c) Guest is sacred.  (d) Obedience to law.
✅ Answer: (c) Guest is sacred.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His guest is sacred to him.”

◼️ 365. What is the man’s immediate reaction to this “notion”?
(a) He mocks it.  (b) He is moved.  (c) He wakes up a little.  (d) He cries.
✅ Answer: (c) He wakes up a little.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(quickly waking up a little).”

◼️ 366. What does Raina say she and her mother can understand?
(a) Military codes.  (b) Hospitality as sacred.  (c) Guerrilla tactics.  (d) Betrayal.
✅ Answer: (b) Hospitality as sacred.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My mother and I can understand that notion...”

◼️ 367. What does Raina say the man did wrongly at first?
(a) Took food without asking.  (b) Climbed through the wrong window.  (c) Threatened her with his pistol.  (d) Lied about his identity.
✅ Answer: (c) Threatened her with his pistol.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...instead of threatening me with your pistol...”

◼️ 368. What would have assured the man’s safety, according to Raina?
(a) Using the password.  (b) Pretending to be Bulgarian.  (c) Throwing himself as a fugitive on their hospitality.  (d) Escaping to the cellar.
✅ Answer: (c) Throwing himself as a fugitive on their hospitality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...you had simply thrown yourself as a fugitive on our hospitality...”

◼️ 369. Where is Raina’s father during this scene?
(a) In Vienna.  (b) At home.  (c) Fighting at Slivnitza.  (d) On a diplomatic mission.
✅ Answer: (c) Fighting at Slivnitza.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is away at Slivnitza fighting for his country.”

◼️ 370. What does Raina offer as a pledge of safety?
(a) Her scarf.  (b) Her pistol.  (c) Her hand.  (d) A letter.
✅ Answer: (c) Her hand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is my hand in pledge of it.”

◼️ 371. Why does the man hesitate to take her hand?
(a) He is shy.  (b) His hand is injured.  (c) He feels dirty.  (d) He doubts her sincerity.
✅ Answer: (c) He feels dirty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Better not touch my hand... I must have a wash first.”

◼️ 372. How does Raina react to his hesitation?
(a) Shocked.  (b) Angry.  (c) Amused.  (d) Touched.
✅ Answer: (d) Touched.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(touched). That is very nice of you.”

◼️ 373. What does Raina say about Bulgarians of good standing?
(a) They are always armed.  (b) They wear velvet.  (c) They wash their hands nearly every day.  (d) They never trust Servians.
✅ Answer: (c) They wash their hands nearly every day.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...people in OUR position—wash their hands nearly every day.”

◼️ 374. How does the man finally take her hand?
(a) He shakes it.  (b) He holds it firmly.  (c) He kisses it with his hands behind his back.  (d) He refuses it again.
✅ Answer: (c) He kisses it with his hands behind his back.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(kissing it with his hands behind his back).”

◼️ 375. What does the man request Raina to do at the end of the passage?
(a) Fetch food.  (b) Hide him better.  (c) Tell her mother.  (d) Burn his uniform.
✅ Answer: (c) Tell her mother.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...would you mind breaking the news to your mother?”

◼️ 376. The opera ‘Ernani’ serves symbolically in the passage as:

(a) A reference to royalty.  (b) A model for chivalry and honor.  (c) A critique of politics.  (d) A romance.
✅ Answer: (b) A model for chivalry and honor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His guest is sacred to him.”

◼️ 377. “My father keeps six hotels” is an example of:
(a) Sarcasm.  (b) Irony.  (c) Hyperbole.  (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Despite owning hotels, he doubts his father’s sense of sacred hospitality.

◼️ 378. The act of offering a hand as a “pledge” symbolizes:
(a) Engagement.  (b) Romantic hint.  (c) Sacred trust and promise.  (d) Victory.
✅ Answer: (c) Sacred trust and promise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is my hand in pledge of it.”

◼️ 379. “Wash their hands nearly every day” is a satirical jab at:
(a) Poor hygiene.  (b) Bulgarian customs.  (c) Pretentious civility.  (d) Religious ritual.
✅ Answer: (c) Pretentious civility.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It mocks superficial standards of refinement.

◼️ 380. The kiss with hands behind his back can be seen as a symbol of:
(a) Submission.  (b) Fake nobility.  (c) Respect despite shame.  (d) Military salute.
✅ Answer: (c) Respect despite shame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He maintains manners despite dirty hands.

◼️ 381. “Then I don’t know it.” reveals the man’s:
(a) Honesty due to fatigue.  (b) Sarcastic withdrawal.  (c) Intelligence.  (d) Interest in opera.
✅ Answer: (a) Honesty due to fatigue.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then I don’t know it.” said after sighing in weariness.

◼️ 382. “You would have been as safe as in your father’s house” suggests:
(a) Political loyalty.  (b) Familial bond.  (c) Absolute protection under hospitality.  (d) A romantic message.
✅ Answer: (c) Absolute protection under hospitality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Emphasizing sacred duty to protect a guest.

◼️ 383. “Don’t be angry: you see how awkward it would be...” implies:
(a) Apology cloaked in logic.  (b) Arrogance.  (c) Change of subject.  (d) Command.
✅ Answer: (a) Apology cloaked in logic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Trying to rationalize his earlier actions.

◼️ 384. “You may take my hand” said the second time suggests:
(a) Submission.  (b) A test of gentility.  (c) Flirtation.  (d) Cultural pride.
✅ Answer: (b) A test of gentility.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She tests his delicacy and manners.

◼️ 385. “I feel safe at last” conveys what deeper meaning?
(a) He trusts her nobility.  (b) Relief mixed with satire.  (c) Emotional dependence.  (d) Military security.
✅ Answer: (b) Relief mixed with satire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It’s both sincere and a nod to Raina’s grand speech.

◼️ 386. What does Raina request the man to do while she is away?

(a) Lock the door.  (b) Sit on the bed.  (c) Keep perfectly still.  (d) Pretend to be asleep.
✅ Answer: (c) Keep perfectly still.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you will be so good as to keep perfectly still whilst I am away.”

◼️ 387. Where does the man sit when Raina makes her request?
(a) On the bed.  (b) Near the window.  (c) On the ottoman.  (d) On the floor.
✅ Answer: (c) On the ottoman.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He sits down on the ottoman.)”

◼️ 388. What is Raina wearing as she prepares to leave?
(a) A velvet cloak.  (b) A blanket.  (c) A military jacket.  (d) A fur cloak.
✅ Answer: (d) A fur cloak.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Raina goes to the bed and wraps herself in the fur cloak.”

◼️ 389. How does Raina notice that the man is falling asleep?
(a) He lies down.  (b) He closes his eyes.  (c) She sees his head nodding.  (d) She hears his snore.
✅ Answer: (b) He closes his eyes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...but on turning for a last look at him, sees that he is dropping off to sleep.”

◼️ 390. How does Raina attempt to wake the man?
(a) She yells.  (b) She claps.  (c) She shakes him.  (d) She throws water.
✅ Answer: (c) She shakes him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...she runs to him and shakes him.”

◼️ 391. How does the man initially excuse his sleepiness?
(a) He says he was praying.  (b) He says he was thinking.  (c) He says he’s ill.  (d) He blames the cold.
✅ Answer: (b) He says he was thinking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, no, not the least in the world: I was only thinking.”

◼️ 392. What does Raina instruct him to do all the time she is gone?
(a) Sing.  (b) Stay standing.  (c) Keep the window shut.  (d) Guard the door.
✅ Answer: (b) Stay standing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Will you please stand up while I am away. All the time, mind.”

◼️ 393. What is the man’s physical condition when he stands?
(a) Alert.  (b) Balanced.  (c) Unsteady.  (d) Straight and stiff.
✅ Answer: (c) Unsteady.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(standing unsteadily)”

◼️ 394. What does Raina almost catch him doing at the door?
(a) Lying down.  (b) Stealing.  (c) Yawning.  (d) Escaping.
✅ Answer: (c) Yawning.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...almost catching him in the act of yawning.”

◼️ 395. What phrase does the man drowsily repeat?
(a) “Think, think.”  (b) “Sleep, sleep.”  (c) “Stand still.”  (d) “Go away.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Sleep, sleep.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(drowsily). Sleep, sleep, sleep...”

◼️ 396. What does the man suddenly ask himself when he wakes briefly?
(a) Where am I?  (b) What’s the time?  (c) Who am I?  (d) Where’s Raina?
✅ Answer: (a) Where am I?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Where am I? That’s what I want to know.”

◼️ 397. According to him, what keeps him awake?
(a) Cold.  (b) Hunger.  (c) Danger.  (d) Noise.
✅ Answer: (c) Danger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nothing keeps me awake except danger—remember that—danger, danger...”

◼️ 398. How does he begin to search for “danger”?
(a) Opens drawers.  (b) Wanders vaguely.  (c) Looks out the window.  (d) Calls Raina.
✅ Answer: (b) Wanders vaguely.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He starts off vaguely around the room in search of it.”

◼️ 399. What piece of furniture does he stumble against?
(a) The ottoman.  (b) A table.  (c) The bed.  (d) The fireplace.
✅ Answer: (c) The bed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He stumbles against the bed.”

◼️ 400. What does he finally do before falling asleep?
(a) Opens the window.  (b) Lies on the bed and lifts his boots in.  (c) Puts on his coat.  (d) Checks his gun.
✅ Answer: (b) Lies on the bed and lifts his boots in.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “With a happy sigh he sinks back at full length; lifts his boots into the bed...”

◼️ 401. Who enters the room after he falls asleep?
(a) Nicola and Louka.  (b) Catherine and Sergius.  (c) Catherine and Raina.  (d) A Russian officer.
✅ Answer: (c) Catherine and Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Catherine comes in, followed by Raina.”

◼️ 402. What do Catherine and Raina initially think happened to the man?
(a) He escaped.  (b) He’s hiding under the bed.  (c) He died.  (d) He locked the door.
✅ Answer: (a) He escaped.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He’s gone! I left him here.”

◼️ 403. Where do they find him sleeping?
(a) On the ottoman.  (b) Behind the curtain.  (c) In the bed.  (d) In the wardrobe.
✅ Answer: (c) In the bed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(seeing him). Oh! (She points.)”

◼️ 404. What is Catherine’s first reaction when she sees him in bed?
(a) Laughter.  (b) Fear.  (c) Scandalized anger.  (d) Relief.
✅ Answer: (c) Scandalized anger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(scandalized). Well!”

◼️ 405. What does Raina call the man in a tone of sympathy?
(a) The noble guest.  (b) The tired soul.  (c) The poor dear.  (d) The wounded warrior.
✅ Answer: (c) The poor dear.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Don’t, mamma: the poor dear is worn out.”

◼️ 406. The repeated use of “sleep, sleep...” is an example of:

(a) Metaphor.  (b) Personification.  (c) Repetition for emphasis.  (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (c) Repetition for emphasis.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sleep, sleep, sleep...”

◼️ 407. The phrase “Nothing keeps me awake except danger” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Sarcasm.  (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerated to stress his extreme fatigue.

◼️ 408. The man stumbling into the bed symbolizes:
(a) Giving up hope.  (b) Military failure.  (c) Inevitable surrender to exhaustion.  (d) Defiance.
✅ Answer: (c) Inevitable surrender to exhaustion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ah, yes: now I know. All right now.”

◼️ 409. Catherine’s exclamation “The brute!” is an example of:
(a) Hyperbole.  (b) Irony.  (c) Alliteration.  (d) Metonymy.
✅ Answer: (a) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Calling a sleeping man a brute emphasizes her anger.

◼️ 410. “I’m to go to bed, but not to sleep” is structurally an example of:
(a) Irony.  (b) Oxymoron.  (c) Paradox.  (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (c) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It expresses a contradiction in command vs. desire.

◼️ 411. “You may depend on me” spoken by the man is:

(a) A sarcastic assurance.  (b) A sincere promise.  (c) A manipulative tactic.  (d) A sleepy compliance.
✅ Answer: (d) A sleepy compliance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He’s barely alert, giving meaningless assurance.

◼️ 412. “Must keep awake... danger...” reveals:
(a) A soldier’s habit of alertness.  (b) A coded message.  (c) Delirium from fever.  (d) A conscious plan.
✅ Answer: (a) A soldier’s habit of alertness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His mind drifts back to battle instincts.

◼️ 413. Raina’s “The poor dear is worn out” shows:
(a) Loss of logic.  (b) Her growing compassion.  (c) Her immaturity.  (d) Her disloyalty.
✅ Answer: (b) Her growing compassion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She begins to humanize the man.

◼️ 414. Catherine’s “Raina!!!” with triple exclamation reveals:
(a) Admiration.  (b) Humour.  (c) Shock and stern disapproval.  (d) Desperation.
✅ Answer: (c) Shock and stern disapproval.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She looks sternly at her daughter.)”

◼️ 415. The man's final blissful sleep represents:
(a) Victory.  (b) Rebellion.  (c) Vulnerability in trust.  (d) Escape plan.
✅ Answer: (c) Vulnerability in trust.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He trusts the house enough to finally sleep.

◼️ 416. What is the date mentioned at the beginning of this scene?

(a) Sixth March 1885.  (b) Sixth March 1886.  (c) Fifth April 1886.  (d) Sixth May 1885.
✅ Answer: (b) Sixth March 1886.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The sixth of March, 1886.”

◼️ 417. Where is the scene set?
(a) Inside Major Petkoff’s house.  (b) In a public square.  (c) In the garden of Major Petkoff’s house.  (d) On a battlefield.
✅ Answer: (c) In the garden of Major Petkoff’s house.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “In the garden of Major Petkoff’s house.”

◼️ 418. What season is it in the scene?
(a) Summer.  (b) Spring.  (c) Autumn.  (d) Winter.
✅ Answer: (b) Spring.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It is a fine spring morning...”

◼️ 419. What geographical feature rises a few miles beyond the town?
(a) The Alps.  (b) The Rhodopes.  (c) The Carpathians.  (d) The Balkan mountains.
✅ Answer: (d) The Balkan mountains.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A few miles further the Balkan mountains rise...”

◼️ 420. What do the minarets indicate in the scene?
(a) That the house is religious.  (b) That it is near a monastery.  (c) That there is a town in the valley.  (d) That war has ended.
✅ Answer: (c) That there is a town in the valley.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...minarets... shewing that there is a valley there, with the little town in it.”

◼️ 421. What part of the house is visible on the right?
(a) The drawing room.  (b) The garden door and wall.  (c) The attic.  (d) The kitchen entrance.
✅ Answer: (b) The garden door and wall.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “the side of the house is seen on the right, with a garden door...”

◼️ 422. What is present on the left of the garden?
(a) The conservatory.  (b) The orchard.  (c) The stable yard and gateway.  (d) The greenhouse.
✅ Answer: (c) The stable yard and gateway.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “On the left the stable yard, with its gateway...”

◼️ 423. What is hung along the fruit bushes?
(a) Lanterns.  (b) Flags.  (c) Washing.  (d) Vines.
✅ Answer: (c) Washing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...covered with washing hung out to dry.”

◼️ 424. What kind of breakfast items are laid out on the table?
(a) Tea and toast.  (b) Coffee, rolls, etc.  (c) Milk and eggs.  (d) Wine and cheese.
✅ Answer: (b) Coffee, rolls, etc.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...laid for breakfast with Turkish coffee pot, cups, rolls, etc.”

◼️ 425. What suggests that breakfast has already been consumed?
(a) The food is missing.  (b) The cups and bread are untouched.  (c) The cups are used and bread broken.  (d) Ants are present.
✅ Answer: (c) The cups are used and bread broken.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...but the cups have been used and the bread broken.”

◼️ 426. Where is the wooden garden seat placed?
(a) At the centre.  (b) Against the wall on the left.  (c) Beside the steps.  (d) Near the gate.
✅ Answer: (b) Against the wall on the left.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There is a wooden garden seat against the wall on the left.”

◼️ 427. What is Louka doing when the scene begins?
(a) Setting the table.  (b) Cleaning the yard.  (c) Smoking a cigaret.  (d) Watering the plants.
✅ Answer: (c) Smoking a cigaret.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka, smoking a cigaret...”

◼️ 428. What is Louka's attitude towards the man lecturing her?
(a) Submissive.  (b) Playful.  (c) Angry disdain.  (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (c) Angry disdain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...turning her back with angry disdain...”

◼️ 429. What is Nicola’s personality described as?
(a) Arrogant and flamboyant.  (b) Humble and naïve.  (c) Cool and calculating.  (d) Cowardly and confused.
✅ Answer: (c) Cool and calculating.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is a middle-aged man of cool temperament... accurate calculator who has no illusions.”

◼️ 430. What does Nicola value himself upon?
(a) Education.  (b) Intelligence.  (c) Rank in servility.  (d) Wealth.
✅ Answer: (c) Rank in servility.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the servant who values himself on his rank in servility...”

◼️ 431. What distinctive feature does Nicola’s physical appearance include?
(a) A Turkish moustache.  (b) Hair to the shoulder.  (c) A shaved head up to the crown.  (d) A monocle.
✅ Answer: (c) A shaved head up to the crown.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His head is shaved up to the crown...”

◼️ 432. What kind of forehead does this give Nicola?
(a) Narrow English.  (b) Slavic square.  (c) High Japanese.  (d) Round Mongolian.
✅ Answer: (c) High Japanese.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...giving him a high Japanese forehead.”

◼️ 433. What is the name of the man-servant?
(a) Sergius.  (b) Petkoff.  (c) Nicola.  (d) Paul.
✅ Answer: (c) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His name is Nicola.”

◼️ 434. What does Nicola warn Louka about?
(a) Not doing chores.  (b) Disrespecting the mistress.  (c) Spying.  (d) Leaving the house.
✅ Answer: (b) Disrespecting the mistress.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...if she once suspects that you are defying her, out you go.”

◼️ 435. What assumption does Nicola say the mistress makes about her servants?
(a) That they are dishonest.  (b) That they cannot dare to be disrespectful.  (c) That they are foreign.  (d) That they are spies.
✅ Answer: (b) That they cannot dare to be disrespectful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She is so grand that she never dreams that any servant could dare to be disrespectful to her...”

◼️ 436. The washing hung over fruit bushes symbolizes:

(a) Domestic disorder.  (b) Military life.  (c) Peaceful routine after war.  (d) Cultural backwardness.
✅ Answer: (c) Peaceful routine after war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Laundry over fruit bushes in spring evokes return to normal life.

◼️ 437. Nicola’s “high Japanese forehead” symbolically suggests:
(a) Wildness.  (b) Intellect and control.  (c) Illness.  (d) Superstition.
✅ Answer: (b) Intellect and control.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Evokes precision and mental sharpness.

◼️ 438. Louka turning her back “with angry disdain” is an example of:
(a) Irony.  (b) Foreshadowing.  (c) Visual metaphor.  (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (c) Visual metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her physical gesture reflects rebellion.

◼️ 439. Nicola’s self-description reflects a figure of speech called:
(a) Hyperbole.  (b) Litotes.  (c) Metonymy.  (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (d) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He proudly claims virtue in servility—an ironic boast.

◼️ 440. The breakfast remains (used cups, broken bread) symbolically suggest:
(a) Ill-mannered guests.  (b) Hasty departure.  (c) Passage of private time.  (d) Transition from old to new.
✅ Answer: (c) Passage of private time.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Breakfast already consumed implies the day’s emotional residue.

◼️ 441. “Be warned in time” by Nicola reveals:
(a) A personal threat.  (b) Genuine concern with subtle control.  (c) Fear of Louka.  (d) A direct insult.
✅ Answer: (b) Genuine concern with subtle control.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Nicola balances warning with protective tone.

◼️ 442. Louka’s cigarette smoking implies:
(a) She is noble.  (b) She is indifferent.  (c) She is rebellious.  (d) She is romantic.
✅ Answer: (c) She is rebellious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Smoking in defiance of class expectations shows resistance.

◼️ 443. Nicola’s “accurate calculator who has no illusions” suggests:
(a) He is unemotional and practical.  (b) He is poor at arithmetic.  (c) He is romantic.  (d) He is a philosopher.
✅ Answer: (a) He is unemotional and practical.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes his personality as grounded and realistic.

◼️ 444. The garden setting filled with early spring visuals reflects:
(a) Chaos.  (b) Hostility.  (c) Rebirth and change.  (d) Social stagnation.
✅ Answer: (c) Rebirth and change.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Spring signifies thematic new beginnings.

◼️ 445. Nicola warning Louka she’ll be thrown out if caught defying is:
(a) Blind loyalty.  (b) Hierarchical enforcement.  (c) Fear of war.  (d) Love.
✅ Answer: (b) Hierarchical enforcement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...if she once suspects that you are defying her, out you go.”

◼️ 446. What is Louka’s initial declaration in this excerpt?

(a) She will obey the mistress.  (b) She does not care for Nicola.  (c) She defies the mistress.  (d) She will resign.
✅ Answer: (c) She defies the mistress.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I do defy her. I will defy her. What do I care for her?”

◼️ 447. According to Nicola, if Louka quarrels with the family, what consequence follows for him?
(a) He will be promoted.  (b) He will lose Louka.  (c) He cannot marry her.  (d) He will be rewarded.
✅ Answer: (c) He cannot marry her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you quarrel with the family, I never can marry you.”

◼️ 448. Louka accuses Nicola of what?
(a) Betraying the army.  (b) Being too ambitious.  (c) Taking the mistress’s side.  (d) Lying about Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) Taking the mistress’s side.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You take her part against me, do you?”

◼️ 449. Why does Nicola claim he must stay in the family’s good books?
(a) He wants to inherit.  (b) Their goodwill is his future capital.  (c) He fears arrest.  (d) He is deeply loyal.
✅ Answer: (b) Their goodwill is his future capital.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Their custom will be half my capital...”

◼️ 450. According to Nicola, what could ruin him when he starts a shop?
(a) Taxes.  (b) Louka’s rebellion.  (c) Their bad word.  (d) War.
✅ Answer: (c) Their bad word.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...their bad word would ruin me.”

◼️ 451. What does Louka accuse Nicola of lacking?
(a) Kindness.  (b) Wealth.  (c) Spirit.  (d) Loyalty.
✅ Answer: (c) Spirit.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have no spirit.”

◼️ 452. How does Nicola react to Louka’s lack of sense?
(a) With surprise.  (b) With sarcasm.  (c) Pityingly.  (d) With rage.
✅ Answer: (c) Pityingly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(pityingly). I should have expected more sense from you, Louka.”

◼️ 453. What personal advantage does Louka claim regarding secrets?
(a) She has physical strength.  (b) She knows family secrets.  (c) She is more educated.  (d) She owns land.
✅ Answer: (b) She knows family secrets.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I know some family secrets they wouldn’t care to have told...”

◼️ 454. What is Nicola’s tone when he says “You’re young, you’re young!”?
(a) Condescending.  (b) Encouraging.  (c) Sarcastic.  (d) Scared.
✅ Answer: (a) Condescending.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But you’re young, you’re young!”

◼️ 455. What does Louka suggest about Nicola's attraction to her?
(a) He is in love with someone else.  (b) He fears her.  (c) He prefers her youth.  (d) He is jealous of Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) He prefers her youth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes; and you like me the better for it, don’t you?”

◼️ 456. How does Nicola respond when Louka asks what they could do to her?
(a) With laughter.  (b) With legal threats.  (c) With a list of social consequences.  (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (c) With a list of social consequences.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Discharge you for untruthfulness... Who would give you another situation?”

◼️ 457. What action shows Louka’s impatience in the scene?
(a) Throwing a stone.  (b) Spitting.  (c) Throwing and stamping her cigaret.  (d) Shouting.
✅ Answer: (c) Throwing and stamping her cigaret.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She impatiently throws away the end of her cigaret, and stamps on it.)”

◼️ 458. What does Nicola say about people like him and Louka trying to rise?
(a) They succeed easily.  (b) They are supported by the rich.  (c) They face oppression.  (d) They must leave the country.
✅ Answer: (c) They face oppression.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the like of you and me when we try to rise out of our poverty against them.”

◼️ 459. What does Nicola lower before sharing his secrets?
(a) His hat.  (b) His gaze.  (c) His voice.  (d) His arms.
✅ Answer: (c) His voice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He goes close to her and lowers his voice.)”

◼️ 460. What does Nicola know about the mistress?
(a) She is unfaithful.  (b) Things she wouldn't want the master to know.  (c) She is a spy.  (d) She wants to fire Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) Things she wouldn't want the master to know.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I know things about the mistress that she wouldn’t have the master know...”

◼️ 461. What is Nicola’s bargaining amount regarding the mistress’s secret?
(a) A hundred levas.  (b) A thousand levas.  (c) Ten thousand francs.  (d) One crown.
✅ Answer: (b) A thousand levas.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...for a thousand levas.”

◼️ 462. What effect would Nicola's secret about the master have?
(a) He’d leave the house.  (b) It would ruin the mistress.  (c) She would not stop talking about it for six months.  (d) The master would divorce her.
✅ Answer: (c) She would not stop talking about it for six months.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...that she wouldn’t let him hear the last of for six months...”

◼️ 463. Nicola knows things about Raina that would cause what consequence?
(a) Her promotion.  (b) Break her match with Sergius.  (c) Bring her fame.  (d) Lead to her arrest.
✅ Answer: (b) Break her match with Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...that would break off her match with Sergius...”

◼️ 464. Louka’s reaction to Nicola’s mention of Raina’s secret is one of:
(a) Denial.  (b) Innocence.  (c) Accusation.  (d) Shock and exposure.
✅ Answer: (d) Shock and exposure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(turning on him quickly). How do you know? I never told you!”

◼️ 465. Nicola’s final advice to Louka is to:
(a) Escape.  (b) Demand a raise.  (c) Be respectful and silent.  (d) Reveal all secrets.
✅ Answer: (c) Be respectful and silent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...be respectful; and make the mistress feel... they can depend on you to hold your tongue...”

◼️ 466. The “end of her cigaret” Louka throws symbolizes:

(a) Love.  (b) Rebellion.  (c) Tradition.  (d) Silence.
✅ Answer: (b) Rebellion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Throwing and stamping reflects her emotional outburst and defiance.

◼️ 467. “You have no spirit” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor.  (b) Simile.  (c) Alliteration.  (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Spirit" is used metaphorically to mean courage or individuality.

◼️ 468. “She wouldn’t let him hear the last of it” is an idiom meaning:
(a) She would praise him.  (b) She would never stop mentioning it.  (c) She would remain silent.  (d) She would forget it.
✅ Answer: (b) She would never stop mentioning it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: An idiomatic expression indicating ongoing complaint or nagging.

◼️ 469. “Hold your tongue” is a figure of speech meaning:
(a) Pull your tongue.  (b) Be quiet.  (c) Talk freely.  (d) Lie often.
✅ Answer: (b) Be quiet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: An idiomatic expression advising silence.

◼️ 470. Nicola’s tone “with compassionate superiority” reveals:
(a) Mockery.  (b) Coldness.  (c) Pity mixed with condescension.  (d) Rage.
✅ Answer: (c) Pity mixed with condescension.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase itself indicates both sympathy and arrogance.

◼️ 471. Nicola saying “you’re young” actually implies:
(a) You’re inexperienced and foolish.  (b) You’re energetic.  (c) You’re trustworthy.  (d) You’re lucky.
✅ Answer: (a) You’re inexperienced and foolish.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used condescendingly to dismiss her idealism.

◼️ 472. Louka’s claim “Let them quarrel with me if they dare!” reflects:
(a) Fear.  (b) Recklessness and pride.  (c) Obedience.  (d) Resignation.
✅ Answer: (b) Recklessness and pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The challenge she issues shows bold defiance.

◼️ 473. Nicola lowering his voice before revealing secrets indicates:
(a) A public announcement.  (b) Urgency and secrecy.  (c) Sarcasm.  (d) Love.
✅ Answer: (b) Urgency and secrecy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He goes close to her and lowers his voice.”

◼️ 474. Nicola’s statement “Who would believe any stories you told after that?” reveals:
(a) A desire to support Louka.  (b) A manipulation tactic.  (c) Sympathy.  (d) Legal awareness.
✅ Answer: (b) A manipulation tactic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He warns her of social invisibility to silence her.

◼️ 475. “Make most out of them” suggests Nicola’s:
(a) Hidden rebellion.  (b) Exploitative loyalty.  (c) Ignorance.  (d) Illness.
✅ Answer: (b) Exploitative loyalty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...that’s how you’ll make most out of them.”

◼️ 476. What tone does Louka use when she says “You have the soul of a servant”?

(a) Loving.  (b) Scornful.  (c) Sad.  (d) Afraid.
✅ Answer: (b) Scornful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with searching scorn). You have the soul of a servant, Nicola.”

◼️ 477. How does Nicola respond to Louka’s insult?
(a) With silence.  (b) By denying it.  (c) With complacent pride.  (d) With anger.
✅ Answer: (c) With complacent pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(complacently). Yes: that’s the secret of success in service.”

◼️ 478. What sound interrupts their conversation?
(a) Gunshot.  (b) Clanging bell.  (c) Loud knocking with a whip handle.  (d) Footsteps.
✅ Answer: (c) Loud knocking with a whip handle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A loud knocking with a whip handle on a wooden door...”

◼️ 479. What does the male voice outside call for?
(a) Louka.  (b) Petkoff.  (c) Coffee.  (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (d) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “MALE VOICE OUTSIDE. Hollo! Hollo there! Nicola!”

◼️ 480. Who does Louka recognize the voice as?
(a) The master.  (b) The stableman.  (c) The general.  (d) The priest.
✅ Answer: (a) The master.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “LOUKA. Master! back from the war!”

◼️ 481. What does Nicola conclude from the master’s return?
(a) There will be a ceremony.  (b) The war is over.  (c) He must resign.  (d) Louka will be fired.
✅ Answer: (b) The war is over.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My word for it, Louka, the war’s over.”

◼️ 482. What task does Nicola assign to Louka after the master's return?
(a) Call Raina.  (b) Polish boots.  (c) Get fresh coffee.  (d) Bring the newspaper.
✅ Answer: (c) Get fresh coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Off with you and get some fresh coffee.”

◼️ 483. How does Louka assert her independence as she exits?
(a) By refusing to go.  (b) By cursing Nicola.  (c) By declaring her inner resolve.  (d) By threatening Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) By declaring her inner resolve.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You’ll never put the soul of a servant into me.”

◼️ 484. What kind of man is Major Petkoff described as?
(a) Aggressive and arrogant.  (b) Refined and soft-spoken.  (c) Excitable and unpolished.  (d) Harsh and cruel.
✅ Answer: (c) Excitable and unpolished.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...a cheerful, excitable, insignificant, unpolished man...”

◼️ 485. What has given Petkoff a sense of importance?
(a) His wealth.  (b) His war-earned military rank.  (c) His family status.  (d) His education.
✅ Answer: (b) His war-earned military rank.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...greatly pleased with the military rank which the war has thrust on him...”

◼️ 486. What motivates Petkoff apart from patriotism?
(a) Ambition to travel.  (b) Desire to write a book.  (c) Local social status and income.  (d) Political power.
✅ Answer: (c) Local social status and income.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...naturally unambitious except as to his income and his importance in local society...”

◼️ 487. What is Nicola’s first act after Petkoff arrives?
(a) Goes to fetch Raina.  (b) Goes to fetch coffee.  (c) Runs to Louka.  (d) Sits beside Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (a) Goes to fetch Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Go in and say I’ve come...”

◼️ 488. What does Petkoff do as he sits at the table?
(a) Lights a cigarette.  (b) Eats a roll.  (c) Calls Raina.  (d) Looks for Louka.
✅ Answer: (b) Eats a roll.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(sitting down and taking a roll).”

◼️ 489. What confirms Louka was efficient in her duty after Petkoff’s order for coffee?
(a) She sent Nicola.  (b) She ignored it.  (c) She met Nicola with the coffee.  (d) She served breakfast.
✅ Answer: (c) She met Nicola with the coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka, with fresh coffee... on her tray meets him.”

◼️ 490. What does Petkoff ask Louka about after sitting?
(a) Whether she’s afraid of war.  (b) If she has brought cognac.  (c) If she missed him.  (d) If she will marry Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) If she has brought cognac.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Have you brought me some cognac?”

◼️ 491. What emotion does Petkoff exhibit on returning from war?
(a) Remorse.  (b) Joy and relief.  (c) Indifference.  (d) Contempt.
✅ Answer: (b) Joy and relief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is obviously glad to be home again.”

◼️ 492. What does Petkoff use to point at the breakfast table?
(a) A pen.  (b) His finger.  (c) His whip.  (d) His sword.
✅ Answer: (c) His whip.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(pointing to the table with his whip).”

◼️ 493. Who were just at the breakfast table before Petkoff arrived?
(a) Sergius and Raina.  (b) Nicola and Louka.  (c) The mistress and Miss Raina.  (d) The general and the cook.
✅ Answer: (c) The mistress and Miss Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The mistress and Miss Raina have just gone in.”

◼️ 494. What was on Louka’s tray when she brought the coffee?
(a) Sugar and spoon.  (b) A letter and coffee.  (c) Coffee, a clean cup, and brandy.  (d) Tea and pastries.
✅ Answer: (c) Coffee, a clean cup, and brandy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka, with fresh coffee, a clean cup, and a brandy bottle on her tray...”

◼️ 495. What does Petkoff jokingly ask Louka about the Servians?
(a) If they stole the horses.  (b) If they left gifts.  (c) If they ran away with her.  (d) If they were polite.
✅ Answer: (c) If they ran away with her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Well, the Servians haven’t run away with you, have they?”

◼️ 496. “The soul of a servant” is an example of:

(a) Simile.  (b) Symbolism.  (c) Personification.  (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It symbolizes a submissive, compliant mindset.

◼️ 497. Louka’s line “You’ll never put the soul of a servant into me” shows:
(a) Her poetic side.  (b) A metaphor for resistance to servitude.  (c) Her hatred for Nicola.  (d) Her fear of war.
✅ Answer: (b) A metaphor for resistance to servitude.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It expresses refusal to internalize submissiveness.

◼️ 498. The whip handle knocking serves as a dramatic:
(a) Irony.  (b) Metaphor.  (c) Sound symbol.  (d) Foreshadowing.
✅ Answer: (c) Sound symbol.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The sound signals the return of authority (Petkoff).

◼️ 499. The cognac requested by Petkoff symbolizes:
(a) Military loss.  (b) Bourgeois comfort.  (c) Bravery.  (d) Louka’s rebellion.
✅ Answer: (b) Bourgeois comfort.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Cognac signifies his return to luxury and ease.

◼️ 500. “Well, the Servians haven’t run away with you, have they?” is an example of:
(a) Sarcasm.  (b) Dramatic irony.  (c) Hyperbole.  (d) Rhetorical question.
✅ Answer: (d) Rhetorical question.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The question is humorous and not meant to be answered.

◼️ 501. “You have the soul of a servant” implies Nicola is:
(a) Rebellious.  (b) Ambitious.  (c) Submissive and servile.  (d) Brave.
✅ Answer: (c) Submissive and servile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Louka criticizes his acceptance of lowly status.

◼️ 502. Nicola’s “Yes: that’s the secret of success in service” shows his:
(a) Rebellion.  (b) Self-respect.  (c) Calculated pragmatism.  (d) Arrogance.
✅ Answer: (c) Calculated pragmatism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He views compliance as a survival strategy.

◼️ 503. Louka’s defiant line before leaving shows her:
(a) Romanticism.  (b) Willingness to serve.  (c) Class consciousness and pride.  (d) Hatred of Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Class consciousness and pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You’ll never put the soul of a servant into me.”

◼️ 504. Petkoff’s cheerful mood shows his:
(a) Insecurity.  (b) Trauma.  (c) Shallow patriotism.  (d) Relief from war and desire for comfort.
✅ Answer: (d) Relief from war and desire for comfort.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...obviously glad to be home again.”

◼️ 505. Nicola’s immediate service after Petkoff’s return suggests:
(a) False loyalty.  (b) Fear of being fired.  (c) Deeply ingrained servitude.  (d) Disrespect.
✅ Answer: (c) Deeply ingrained servitude.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He instinctively resumes serving without hesitation.

◼️ 506. What does Louka bring to Petkoff before exiting?
(a) Tea.  (b) Cognac.  (c) Coffee.  (d) Brandy.
✅ Answer: (d) Brandy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “LOUKA. (putting the bottle on the table). Here, sir.”

◼️ 507. What does Petkoff pour the brandy into?
(a) His mouth.  (b) A wine glass.  (c) His coffee.  (d) A cup of water.
✅ Answer: (c) His coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “PETKOFF. That’s right. (He pours some into his coffee.)”

◼️ 508. What kind of appearance does Catherine have when she enters?
(a) Flawlessly dressed.  (b) Barefoot and messy.  (c) Perfunctorily dressed but stately.  (d) In military attire.
✅ Answer: (c) Perfunctorily dressed but stately.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Looking astonishingly handsome and stately under all the circumstances.”

◼️ 509. What clothing item does Catherine wear over her dressing gown?
(a) A lace coat.  (b) A silk shawl.  (c) A Bulgarian apron.  (d) A velvet jacket.
✅ Answer: (c) A Bulgarian apron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...wears a Bulgarian apron over a once brilliant... dressing gown...”

◼️ 510. What does Catherine have tied over her head?
(a) A silver veil.  (b) A crown.  (c) A colored handkerchief.  (d) A helmet.
✅ Answer: (c) A colored handkerchief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...and a colored handkerchief tied over her thick black hair...”

◼️ 511. What does Catherine wear on her feet?
(a) Boots.  (b) Turkish slippers.  (c) Sandals.  (d) Nothing.
✅ Answer: (b) Turkish slippers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with Turkish slippers on her bare feet...”

◼️ 512. What does Catherine first do on seeing Petkoff?
(a) Shout angrily.  (b) Kiss him.  (c) Ignore him.  (d) Scold him.
✅ Answer: (b) Kiss him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She stoops over the back of his chair to kiss him.”

◼️ 513. What does Catherine ask after greeting Petkoff?
(a) Whether war is over.  (b) If he ate.  (c) Whether he had coffee.  (d) Who won the war.
✅ Answer: (c) Whether he had coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Have they brought you fresh coffee?”

◼️ 514. Who does Petkoff say looked after him?
(a) Nicola.  (b) Catherine.  (c) Louka.  (d) Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka’s been looking after me.”

◼️ 515. Where was the peace treaty signed?
(a) Belgrade.  (b) Sofia.  (c) Vienna.  (d) Bucharest.
✅ Answer: (d) Bucharest.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The treaty was signed three days ago at Bucharest...”

◼️ 516. When was the decree for army demobilization issued?
(a) Today.  (b) Yesterday.  (c) Last week.  (d) A month ago.
✅ Answer: (b) Yesterday.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the decree for our army to demobilize was issued yesterday.”

◼️ 517. How does Catherine react to the news of peace?
(a) She celebrates.  (b) She cries.  (c) She gets outraged.  (d) She faints.
✅ Answer: (c) She gets outraged.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE. (outraged). Peace!”

◼️ 518. What accusation does Catherine make about the peace?
(a) It was signed secretly.  (b) Petkoff betrayed Bulgaria.  (c) Austria forced it.  (d) Louka helped in it.
✅ Answer: (c) Austria forced it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Paul: have you let the Austrians force you to make peace?”

◼️ 519. How does Petkoff respond to her accusation?
(a) With anger.  (b) Humorously.  (c) Submissively.  (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (c) Submissively.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(submissively). My dear: they didn’t consult me.”

◼️ 520. What specific phrase does Petkoff emphasize in the treaty?
(a) “Alliance only.”  (b) “Peace only, not friendly relations.”  (c) “Permanent truce.”  (d) “Political surrender.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Peace only, not friendly relations.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It declares peace—but not friendly relations...”

◼️ 521. What bold political move does Catherine say she would’ve made?
(a) Destroy Vienna.  (b) Replace the king.  (c) Annex Servia and crown Alexander Emperor.  (d) Sign no treaty.
✅ Answer: (c) Annex Servia and crown Alexander Emperor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You could have annexed Servia and made Prince Alexander Emperor...”

◼️ 522. Why does Petkoff say he didn't do that?
(a) He didn’t care.  (b) He feared Austria.  (c) It would keep him away from Catherine.  (d) The king refused.
✅ Answer: (c) It would keep him away from Catherine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...that would have kept me too long away from you.”

◼️ 523. What ailment does Catherine complain of?
(a) Fever.  (b) Headache.  (c) Sore throats.  (d) Cough.
✅ Answer: (c) Sore throats.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, my usual sore throats, that’s all.”

◼️ 524. What does Petkoff blame her sore throat on?
(a) Cold drinks.  (b) Modern fashion.  (c) Washing her neck.  (d) Sleeping late.
✅ Answer: (c) Washing her neck.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That comes from washing your neck every day.”

◼️ 525. What hygiene practice does Petkoff oppose?
(a) Brushing teeth.  (b) Bathing daily.  (c) Changing clothes.  (d) Cutting hair.
✅ Answer: (b) Bathing daily.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Once a day is carrying the thing to a ridiculous extreme.”

◼️ 526. “A once brilliant, but now half worn out red dressing gown” symbolizes:
(a) Her love of war.  (b) Fading wealth or glamour.  (c) Religious devotion.  (d) Political ambition.
✅ Answer: (b) Fading wealth or glamour.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It visually portrays a decline from past brilliance.

◼️ 527. “Astonishingly handsome and stately under all the circumstances” is an example of:
(a) Irony.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Metaphor.  (d) Dramatic contrast.
✅ Answer: (d) Dramatic contrast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her regal air contrasts with her disheveled attire.

◼️ 528. “Washing can’t be good for the health: it’s not natural” reflects:
(a) Metaphor for class conflict.  (b) Satire of backward thinking.  (c) Euphemism for illness.  (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (b) Satire of backward thinking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff mocks modern hygiene with pseudo-logic.

◼️ 529. “He never had a bath in his life; and he lived to be ninety-eight” is used as:
(a) A scientific fact.  (b) Symbol of superstition.  (c) Irony to expose foolish beliefs.  (d) A myth.
✅ Answer: (c) Irony to expose foolish beliefs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It highlights absurd justification for not bathing.

◼️ 530. “The English...have to be perpetually washing themselves” is an example of:
(a) Personification.  (b) Metaphor.  (c) Cultural stereotype.  (d) Pun.
✅ Answer: (c) Cultural stereotype.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff generalizes English habits to criticize hygiene.

◼️ 531. Petkoff pouring brandy into coffee signifies:
(a) Addiction.  (b) Military pride.  (c) Comfort and routine.  (d) Mourning.
✅ Answer: (c) Comfort and routine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It reflects a return to normal domestic indulgence.

◼️ 532. Catherine’s “Peace!” in outrage implies:
(a) She expected surrender.  (b) She is against war.  (c) She desired conquest and glory.  (d) She feared soldiers.
✅ Answer: (c) She desired conquest and glory.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She is furious that Bulgaria didn’t dominate.

◼️ 533. Petkoff’s submissive tone toward Catherine shows:
(a) Military failure.  (b) Marital power balance.  (c) Loss of authority.  (d) Intellectual weakness.
✅ Answer: (b) Marital power balance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My dear: they didn’t consult me.”

◼️ 534. Petkoff’s complaint about modern hygiene reflects:
(a) Wisdom.  (b) Tradition clashing with modernity.  (c) Scientific study.  (d) Class arrogance.
✅ Answer: (b) Tradition clashing with modernity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His views mock progress in hygiene.

◼️ 535. “I don’t mind a good wash once a week to keep up my position” reveals:
(a) He values cleanliness.  (b) He’s indifferent to class.  (c) Hygiene as a social performance.  (d) He is obsessed with bathing.
✅ Answer: (c) Hygiene as a social performance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He bathes not for health but to maintain appearances.

◼️ 536. What term does Catherine use to criticize Petkoff’s nature?

(a) Soldier.  (b) Barbarian.  (c) Fool.  (d) Foreigner.
✅ Answer: (b) Barbarian.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You are a barbarian at heart still, Paul.”

◼️ 537. What nationality were the officers before whom Petkoff had to behave?
(a) Serbian.  (b) Austrian.  (c) Russian.  (d) Turkish.
✅ Answer: (c) Russian.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I hope you behaved yourself before all those Russian officers.”

◼️ 538. What household feature does Petkoff proudly mention to impress the officers?
(a) Drawing room.  (b) Dining hall.  (c) Library.  (d) Servants' quarters.
✅ Answer: (c) Library.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I took care to let them know that we had a library.”

◼️ 539. What new installation does Catherine mention?
(a) Telephone.  (b) Ceiling fan.  (c) Electric bell.  (d) Typewriter.
✅ Answer: (c) Electric bell.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ah; but you didn’t tell them that we have an electric bell in it?”

◼️ 540. What does the electric bell do?
(a) Rings in the main gate.  (b) Lights up a room.  (c) Signals in the kitchen.  (d) Starts a fan.
✅ Answer: (c) Signals in the kitchen.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You touch a button; something tinkles in the kitchen; and then Nicola comes up.”

◼️ 541. Whom does the electric bell summon?
(a) Louka.  (b) Nicola.  (c) Raina.  (d) Sergius.
✅ Answer: (b) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...something tinkles in the kitchen; and then Nicola comes up.”

◼️ 542. What is Petkoff’s initial reaction to the electric bell?
(a) Amazement.  (b) Disgust.  (c) Curiosity.  (d) Indifference.
✅ Answer: (c) Curiosity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What’s an electric bell?”

◼️ 543. What traditional method does Petkoff prefer for calling servants?
(a) Ringing a bell.  (b) Shouting.  (c) Writing a note.  (d) Sending another servant.
✅ Answer: (b) Shouting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why not shout for him?”

◼️ 544. What lesson does Catherine say she learned while Paul was away?
(a) Gardening.  (b) Sewing.  (c) Not shouting for servants.  (d) French cooking.
✅ Answer: (c) Not shouting for servants.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Civilized people never shout for their servants. I’ve learnt that while you were away.”

◼️ 545. What does Petkoff criticize about the house surroundings?
(a) The trees.  (b) The chairs.  (c) The drying clothes.  (d) The flowers.
✅ Answer: (c) The drying clothes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Civilized people don’t hang out their washing to dry where visitors can see it.”

◼️ 546. Where are the clothes drying?
(a) On the fence.  (b) In the backyard.  (c) On the bushes.  (d) Inside the room.
✅ Answer: (c) On the bushes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...all that (indicating the clothes on the bushes)...”

◼️ 547. What is Catherine’s response to Paul’s concern about the washing?
(a) She agrees and removes it.  (b) She blames Nicola.  (c) She says refined people don’t notice.  (d) She becomes embarrassed.
✅ Answer: (c) She says refined people don’t notice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I don’t believe really refined people notice such things.”

◼️ 548. Who is heard at the stable gate?
(a) Louka.  (b) Nicola.  (c) Raina.  (d) Sergius.
✅ Answer: (d) Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s Sergius.”

◼️ 549. What does Petkoff do to summon Nicola when Sergius arrives?
(a) Uses the electric bell.  (b) Claps his hands.  (c) Shouts his name.  (d) Sends Catherine.
✅ Answer: (c) Shouts his name.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Shouting.) Hollo, Nicola!”

◼️ 550. How does Catherine react to Paul shouting for Nicola?
(a) She laughs.  (b) She ignores him.  (c) She scolds him.  (d) She cries.
✅ Answer: (c) She scolds him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, don’t shout, Paul: it really isn’t nice.”

◼️ 551. How does Paul respond to Catherine's request not to shout?
(a) He apologizes.  (b) He lowers his voice.  (c) He shouts louder.  (d) He ignores her.
✅ Answer: (c) He shouts louder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He shouts louder than before.) Nicola!”

◼️ 552. What instructions does Petkoff give Nicola about Sergius?
(a) Ask him to wait.  (b) Bring him around.  (c) Call Raina.  (d) Get refreshments.
✅ Answer: (b) Bring him around.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If that is Major Saranoff, bring him round this way.”

◼️ 553. What does Petkoff say Sergius always complains about?
(a) Lack of attention.  (b) Low salary.  (c) No promotion.  (d) Catherine's attitude.
✅ Answer: (c) No promotion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He bores my life out about our not promoting him.”

◼️ 554. What is Petkoff’s ironic remark about Sergius’s desired promotion?
(a) “He wants a medal.”  (b) “Over my head, mind you.”  (c) “Behind my back.”  (d) “Without a reason.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Over my head, mind you.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...not promoting him—over my head, mind you.”

◼️ 555. What reason does Catherine give for Sergius’s promotion?
(a) His bravery.  (b) His charm.  (c) His marriage to Raina.  (d) His poetry.
✅ Answer: (c) His marriage to Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He certainly ought to be promoted when he marries Raina.”

◼️ 556. The electric bell symbolizes:

(a) Luxury.  (b) Civilized modernity.  (c) Laziness.  (d) Military alertness.
✅ Answer: (b) Civilized modernity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine installs it to show sophistication.

◼️ 557. The drying clothes represent:
(a) Domestic pride.  (b) Rural backwardness.  (c) War fatigue.  (d) Freedom.
✅ Answer: (b) Rural backwardness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff’s objection shows concern for outward refinement.

◼️ 558. Petkoff’s shouting despite the electric bell is an example of:
(a) Irony.  (b) Sarcasm.  (c) Satire.  (d) Symbolism.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He rejects modern civility by choosing to shout.

◼️ 559. “You are a barbarian at heart still, Paul” is an example of:
(a) Simile.  (b) Euphemism.  (c) Metaphor.  (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine metaphorically equates Paul’s behavior with savagery.

◼️ 560. “He bores my life out” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Onomatopoeia.  (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerates the extent of Sergius’s annoyance.

◼️ 561. Catherine’s use of “civilized people” reflects her:

(a) Genuine education.  (b) Social aspiration.  (c) Mockery.  (d) Military outlook.
✅ Answer: (b) Social aspiration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She tries to emulate upper-class European manners.

◼️ 562. Petkoff’s mocking of the electric bell suggests his:
(a) Laziness.  (b) Resistance to change.  (c) Fascination with science.  (d) Hostility toward Catherine.
✅ Answer: (b) Resistance to change.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He dismisses the electric bell and insists on shouting.

◼️ 563. Catherine’s view on refined people ignoring clothes drying implies:
(a) Justification of her habits.  (b) Disregard for visitors.  (c) Desire to shock.  (d) Acceptance of tradition.
✅ Answer: (a) Justification of her habits.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I don’t believe really refined people notice such things.”

◼️ 564. Petkoff’s sarcasm “over my head, mind you” reveals:
(a) His jealousy.  (b) His support for Sergius.  (c) His concern for justice.  (d) His military ambition.
✅ Answer: (a) His jealousy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It mocks the idea that Sergius could outrank him.

◼️ 565. Catherine's belief that Sergius should be promoted because of marriage reveals:
(a) Patriotic loyalty.  (b) Romantic idealism.  (c) Political manipulation.  (d) Familial bias.
✅ Answer: (d) Familial bias.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He certainly ought to be promoted when he marries Raina.”

◼️ 566. What reason does Petkoff give for Sergius not being promoted?
(a) Lack of bravery.  (b) Insubordination.  (c) Recklessness in war.  (d) Corruption.
✅ Answer: (c) Recklessness in war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes, so that he could throw away whole brigades instead of regiments.”

◼️ 567. What condition does Petkoff mention before Sergius can be promoted?
(a) If he wins another battle.  (b) If Raina insists.  (c) If the king approves.  (d) If peace becomes lasting.
✅ Answer: (d) If peace becomes lasting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he has not the slightest chance of promotion until we are quite sure that the peace will be a lasting one.”

◼️ 568. Who announces the arrival of Major Sergius Saranoff?
(a) Raina.  (b) Catherine.  (c) Louka.  (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (d) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “NICOLA. (at the gate, announcing). Major Sergius Saranoff!”

◼️ 569. What does Nicola bring after announcing Sergius?
(a) Wine.  (b) A letter.  (c) A chair.  (d) A cushion.
✅ Answer: (c) A chair.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He goes into the house and returns presently with a third chair.”

◼️ 570. Where is Sergius first seen entering from?
(a) Front door.  (b) Kitchen.  (c) Balcony.  (d) Stable gate.
✅ Answer: (d) Stable gate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As he enters from the stable gate...”

◼️ 571. Sergius is described as the original of a portrait in whose room?
(a) Catherine’s.  (b) Louka’s.  (c) Raina’s.  (d) Petkoff’s.
✅ Answer: (c) Raina’s.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the original of the portrait in Raina’s room...”

◼️ 572. What kind of physicality does Sergius have?
(a) Frail and thin.  (b) Hard and muscular.  (c) Weak and sickly.  (d) Small and wiry.
✅ Answer: (b) Hard and muscular.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the physical hardihood...of an untamed mountaineer chieftain.”

◼️ 573. Sergius's eye is described as:
(a) Sleepy and lazy.  (b) Jealously observant.  (c) Innocent and naïve.  (d) Passionless and dry.
✅ Answer: (b) Jealously observant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...his jealously observant eye...”

◼️ 574. What is notable about Sergius's nose?
(a) Short and flat.  (b) Thin, keen, and apprehensive.  (c) Broad and swollen.  (d) Curved and crooked.
✅ Answer: (b) Thin, keen, and apprehensive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...his nose, thin, keen, and apprehensive...”

◼️ 575. Which facial feature of Sergius curves like a ram’s horn?
(a) Lips.  (b) Eyebrows.  (c) Ears.  (d) Beard.
✅ Answer: (b) Eyebrows.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the ridges of his eyebrows, curving with a ram’s-horn twist...”

◼️ 576. Sergius’s chin is described as:
(a) Double and soft.  (b) Assertive.  (c) Weak and retreating.  (d) Pointed and sharp.
✅ Answer: (b) Assertive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...his assertive chin...”

◼️ 577. Where does the narrator say Sergius's face would not be out of place?
(a) On the battlefield.  (b) In a salon in Paris.  (c) On a mountain.  (d) In a monastery.
✅ Answer: (b) In a salon in Paris.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...would not be out of place in a Paris salon.”

◼️ 578. Sergius’s mindset is likened to which English literary movement?
(a) Classicism.  (b) Romanticism.  (c) Victorian realism.  (d) Symbolism.
✅ Answer: (b) Romanticism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the result is precisely what...first produced in England: to-wit, Byronism.”

◼️ 579. Which English poetic figure is Sergius directly compared to?
(a) Wordsworth.  (b) Tennyson.  (c) Childe Harold.  (d) Keats.
✅ Answer: (c) Childe Harold.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...by which Childe Harold fascinated the grandmothers...”

◼️ 580. What attitude has Sergius developed due to his ideals and experience?
(a) Joyful naivety.  (b) Cynical scorn.  (c) Passive indifference.  (d) Practical realism.
✅ Answer: (b) Cynical scorn.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...his consequent cynical scorn for humanity...”

◼️ 581. Sergius is said to suffer from which emotional pattern?
(a) Cold calculation.  (b) Romantic pessimism.  (c) Religious fervor.  (d) Stoic calm.
✅ Answer: (b) Romantic pessimism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the mysterious moodiness, the suggestion of a strange and terrible history...”

◼️ 582. What literary technique is used to describe the mix of tragedy and irony in Sergius’s nature?
(a) Comic relief.  (b) Oxymoron.  (c) Parody.  (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (b) Oxymoron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he has acquired the half tragic, half ironic air...”

◼️ 583. How does the narrator describe Sergius’s view of the world’s failure to live up to ideals?
(a) Logical and rational.  (b) Humble and submissive.  (c) Jejune credulity.  (d) Proud ignorance.
✅ Answer: (c) Jejune credulity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his ideals...”

◼️ 584. Who is clearly shown to be Raina’s ideal hero?
(a) Petkoff.  (b) Sergius.  (c) Bluntschli.  (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Altogether it is clear that here or nowhere is Raina’s ideal hero.”

◼️ 585. How does Catherine react to Sergius’s arrival?
(a) Cautiously.  (b) Indifferently.  (c) Enthusiastically.  (d) Hostilely.
✅ Answer: (c) Enthusiastically.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Catherine is hardly less enthusiastic...”

◼️ 586. The "ram’s-horn twist" of Sergius’s eyebrows is a:

(a) Simile.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Symbol.  (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...curving with a ram’s-horn twist...”

◼️ 587. Sergius’s face not being out of place in a “Paris salon” symbolizes:
(a) Cultural backwardness.  (b) His inner femininity.  (c) Refined civilization.  (d) Shallow vanity.
✅ Answer: (c) Refined civilization.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...would not be out of place in a Paris salon.”

◼️ 588. The “half tragic, half ironic air” is an example of:
(a) Metaphor.  (b) Paradox.  (c) Juxtaposition.  (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (c) Juxtaposition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Blending two contrasting emotions: tragedy and irony.

◼️ 589. Sergius’s personality mirrors the literary figure Childe Harold, which is a:
(a) Literal comparison.  (b) Biographical fact.  (c) Literary allusion.  (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (c) Literary allusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...by which Childe Harold fascinated...”

◼️ 590. The "mysterious moodiness" in Sergius is symbolic of:
(a) War trauma.  (b) Spiritual crisis.  (c) Romantic melancholy.  (d) Political indecision.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic melancholy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the mysterious moodiness...left him nothing but undying remorse...”

◼️ 591. Petkoff’s line about throwing away brigades implies:

(a) Tactical genius.  (b) Recklessness masked as courage.  (c) Efficient leadership.  (d) Love for sacrifice.
✅ Answer: (b) Recklessness masked as courage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he could throw away whole brigades instead of regiments.”

◼️ 592. The “undying remorse” in Sergius indicates:
(a) A traumatic past.  (b) Justified guilt.  (c) Romantic self-pity.  (d) Political regret.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic self-pity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...a strange and terrible history that has left him nothing but undying remorse.”

◼️ 593. The “jejune credulity” about ideals shows Sergius’s:
(a) Childish belief in perfection.  (b) Mature political sense.  (c) Rational worldview.  (d) Acceptance of failure.
✅ Answer: (a) Childish belief in perfection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...jejune credulity as to the absolute validity of his ideals...”

◼️ 594. The comparison with Byronism reveals Sergius’s:
(a) Emotional restraint.  (b) Moral strength.  (c) Self-conscious romanticism.  (d) Practical vision.
✅ Answer: (c) Self-conscious romanticism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the result is...Byronism.”

◼️ 595. Petkoff’s indifferent greeting “Here already, Sergius...” contrasts with:
(a) Raina’s anger.  (b) Louka’s silence.  (c) Catherine’s enthusiasm.  (d) Nicola’s scorn.
✅ Answer: (c) Catherine’s enthusiasm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Catherine is hardly less enthusiastic, and much less reserved...”

◼️ 596. How does Sergius greet Catherine when he arrives?
(a) With a formal bow.  (b) By hugging her.  (c) By kissing her hands.  (d) By saluting.
✅ Answer: (c) By kissing her hands.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(kissing them with scrupulous gallantry).”

◼️ 597. What affectionate term does Sergius use for Catherine?
(a) Dear lady.  (b) Madam.  (c) Mother.  (d) My dear mother.
✅ Answer: (d) My dear mother.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My dear mother, if I may call you so.”

◼️ 598. How does Petkoff correct Sergius’s address to Catherine?
(a) By reminding him she is not his mother.  (b) By laughing.  (c) By saying she’s his superior.  (d) By calling her his wife.
✅ Answer: (a) By reminding him she is not his mother.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Mother-in-law, Sergius; mother-in-law!”

◼️ 599. What offer does Petkoff make to Sergius?
(a) Wine.  (b) Coffee.  (c) Cigarette.  (d) A seat by the fire.
✅ Answer: (b) Coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sit down, and have some coffee.”

◼️ 600. How does Sergius respond to the coffee offer?
(a) He accepts it gladly.  (b) He ignores it.  (c) He declines politely.  (d) He angrily refuses.
✅ Answer: (c) He declines politely.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Thank you, none for me.”

◼️ 601. Where does Sergius go after refusing coffee?
(a) Inside the house.  (b) Behind the stable.  (c) To sit near Raina.  (d) To lean against the steps' rail.
✅ Answer: (d) To lean against the steps' rail.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...posts himself with conscious grace against the rail of the steps...”

◼️ 602. What compliment does Catherine pay Sergius?
(a) You look calm and rested.  (b) You look noble.  (c) You look superb—splendid.  (d) You have grown wiser.
✅ Answer: (c) You look superb—splendid.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You look superb—splendid.”

◼️ 603. What does Catherine say about the public’s reaction to Sergius’s charge?
(a) They were ashamed of it.  (b) They ignored it.  (c) They disapproved.  (d) They were wild with enthusiasm.
✅ Answer: (d) They were wild with enthusiasm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We were all wild with enthusiasm about that magnificent cavalry charge.”

◼️ 604. What tone does Sergius use when he replies to Catherine’s praise?
(a) Joyful.  (b) Ironical.  (c) Angry.  (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Ironical.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with grave irony).”

◼️ 605. How does Sergius describe his cavalry charge?
(a) A miraculous event.  (b) A disaster.  (c) The cradle and the grave of his reputation.  (d) The peak of his career.
✅ Answer: (c) The cradle and the grave of his reputation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It was the cradle and the grave of my military reputation.”

◼️ 606. Why were the Russian generals upset with Sergius?
(a) He disobeyed orders.  (b) He insulted them.  (c) He won the battle the wrong way.  (d) He retreated too soon.
✅ Answer: (c) He won the battle the wrong way.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I won the battle the wrong way...”

◼️ 607. According to Sergius, how did the Russian generals lose the battle?
(a) Bravely.  (b) On instinct.  (c) On wrong principles.  (d) On correct principles.
✅ Answer: (d) On correct principles.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...when our worthy Russian generals were losing it the right way.”

◼️ 608. What ironic statement does Sergius make about the promotions?
(a) The foolish got promoted.  (b) The generals retired honorably.  (c) He alone was blamed.  (d) The losing colonels became generals.
✅ Answer: (d) The losing colonels became generals.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Those two colonels are now major-generals; and I am still a simple major.”

◼️ 609. How does Catherine respond to Sergius's lack of promotion?
(a) With silence.  (b) With scorn.  (c) By vowing to seek justice.  (d) By accusing the generals.
✅ Answer: (c) By vowing to seek justice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The women are on your side; and they will see that justice is done you.”

◼️ 610. What decision has Sergius made after the war?
(a) Join politics.  (b) Leave the country.  (c) Send in his resignation.  (d) Take command of another regiment.
✅ Answer: (c) Send in his resignation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have only waited for the peace to send in my resignation.”

◼️ 611. What is Petkoff's reaction to Sergius's resignation?
(a) He laughs.  (b) He drops his cup in amazement.  (c) He claps.  (d) He praises the decision.
✅ Answer: (b) He drops his cup in amazement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(dropping his cup in his amazement).”

◼️ 612. What does Catherine urge Sergius to do?
(a) Withdraw his resignation.  (b) Leave the house.  (c) Marry Raina quickly.  (d) Appeal to the generals.
✅ Answer: (a) Withdraw his resignation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, you must withdraw it!”

◼️ 613. What is Sergius’s response to the suggestion that he withdraw?
(a) I shall think about it.  (b) I never withdraw!  (c) I will do it for Raina.  (d) That depends on Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (b) I never withdraw!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with resolute, measured emphasis)... I never withdraw!”

◼️ 614. What does Petkoff say about Sergius’s decision?
(a) He had expected it.  (b) It is wise.  (c) It is impulsive.  (d) Who could have supposed it?
✅ Answer: (d) Who could have supposed it?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now who could have supposed you were going to do such a thing?”

◼️ 615. How does Sergius reply to Petkoff’s question about the resignation?
(a) No one.  (b) I told Raina.  (c) Everyone that knew me.  (d) I did not plan it.
✅ Answer: (c) Everyone that knew me.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Everyone that knew me.”

◼️ 616. “The cradle and the grave of my military reputation” is an example of:

(a) Hyperbole.  (b) Irony.  (c) Metaphor.  (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It was the cradle and the grave...” compares victory and downfall without literal meaning.

◼️ 617. The phrase “strictly according to military etiquette” is used:
(a) To praise discipline.  (b) As sarcasm.  (c) To show honor.  (d) Literally.
✅ Answer: (b) As sarcasm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Two major-generals got killed strictly according to military etiquette.”

◼️ 618. The contrast between Sergius’s success and his lack of promotion reflects:
(a) A symbol of justice.  (b) The irony of heroism.  (c) A dream fulfilled.  (d) Comic relief.
✅ Answer: (b) The irony of heroism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His victory leads to demotion while failure is rewarded.

◼️ 619. Raina’s appearance at the top of the steps symbolises:
(a) Physical weakness.  (b) Divine authority.  (c) Romantic idealism.  (d) Jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic idealism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She makes a charming picture...” with gold embroidery and a Phrygian cap.

◼️ 620. Sergius kissing Raina’s hand while on one knee is an image of:
(a) Political submission.  (b) Military respect.  (c) Chivalric romance.  (d) Religious devotion.
✅ Answer: (c) Chivalric romance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He drops chivalrously on one knee and kisses it.”

◼️ 621. Sergius’s ironic tone reveals his:

(a) Love for power.  (b) Disillusionment.  (c) Fear of promotion.  (d) Political loyalty.
✅ Answer: (b) Disillusionment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “with grave irony” and “cradle and the grave...” show disappointment.

◼️ 622. “I never withdraw!” indicates Sergius’s:
(a) Prideful stubbornness.  (b) Strategic skill.  (c) Love for battle.  (d) Fear of humiliation.
✅ Answer: (a) Prideful stubbornness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with resolute, measured emphasis)” signals refusal to backtrack.

◼️ 623. Catherine’s belief that “women are on your side” implies:
(a) Political influence.  (b) Military strategy.  (c) Domestic rebellion.  (d) Emotional manipulation.
✅ Answer: (a) Political influence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...they will see that justice is done you.”

◼️ 624. Petkoff’s phrase “Now who could have supposed...” suggests:
(a) Amusement.  (b) Sarcastic flattery.  (c) Genuine surprise.  (d) Jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Genuine surprise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(vexed)”—Petkoff didn’t expect Sergius to resign.

◼️ 625. The elaborate clothing of Raina symbolises her:
(a) Social detachment.  (b) Earthy realism.  (c) Romantic imagination.  (d) Humble nature.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic imagination.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...thin ecru canvas embroidered with gold” and “Phrygian cap of gold tinsel.”

◼️ 626. How does Petkoff describe Raina to Catherine when she enters?

(a) Wise and calm.  (b) Pretty and punctual.  (c) Pretty, isn’t it?  (d) So elegant and proud.
✅ Answer: (c) Pretty, isn’t it?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Pretty, isn’t it? She always appears at the right moment.”

◼️ 627. How does Catherine react to Raina’s timing?
(a) With admiration.  (b) With irritation.  (c) With surprise.  (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (b) With irritation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes: she listens for it. It is an abominable habit.”

◼️ 628. How does Sergius escort Raina when she enters?
(a) Casually.  (b) With hurried steps.  (c) With splendid gallantry.  (d) With commanding gestures.
✅ Answer: (c) With splendid gallantry.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius leads Raina forward with splendid gallantry...”

◼️ 629. How do Raina and Sergius part after reaching the table?
(a) With a handshake.  (b) With a nod.  (c) With a bow and bend of head.  (d) In silence.
✅ Answer: (c) With a bow and bend of head.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She turns to him with a bend of the head; he bows; and thus they separate...”

◼️ 630. What does Raina do before taking her seat?
(a) Hugs Catherine.  (b) Kisses her father.  (c) Sits beside Sergius.  (d) Greets Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) Kisses her father.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(stooping and kissing her father).”

◼️ 631. How does Petkoff respond to Raina’s gesture?
(a) He cries.  (b) He scolds her.  (c) He pats her cheek and kisses her.  (d) He tells her to sit down.
✅ Answer: (c) He pats her cheek and kisses her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(patting her cheek). My little pet girl.”

◼️ 632. Whose chair does Raina take after greeting her father?
(a) Catherine’s.  (b) Nicola’s.  (c) Sergius’s.  (d) Her own.
✅ Answer: (c) Sergius’s.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...goes to the chair left by Nicola for Sergius...”

◼️ 633. What question does Catherine ask Sergius after the greeting?
(a) If he is still a major.  (b) If he wants coffee.  (c) If he is still a soldier.  (d) If he regrets resigning.
✅ Answer: (c) If he is still a soldier.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And so you’re no longer a soldier, Sergius.”

◼️ 634. How does Sergius describe soldiering?
(a) As a form of bravery.  (b) As the coward’s art.  (c) As noble and dignified.  (d) As a sacred duty.
✅ Answer: (b) As the coward’s art.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art...”

◼️ 635. According to Sergius, when does a soldier attack?
(a) When he is trained.  (b) When he is strong.  (c) When his side is ready.  (d) On equal terms.
✅ Answer: (b) When he is strong.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...attacking mercilessly when you are strong...”

◼️ 636. What does Sergius say about fighting on equal terms?
(a) It builds respect.  (b) It ensures fairness.  (c) It must always be avoided.  (d) It is traditional.
✅ Answer: (c) It must always be avoided.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”

◼️ 637. What is Petkoff’s comment about the war?
(a) It’s glorious.  (b) It should be avoided.  (c) It’s like any other trade.  (d) It made him proud.
✅ Answer: (c) It’s like any other trade.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I suppose soldiering has to be a trade like any other trade.”

◼️ 638. Why has Sergius left soldiering, according to himself?
(a) He was wounded.  (b) He lost faith in leadership.  (c) He took a tradesman’s advice.  (d) He had a family promise.
✅ Answer: (c) He took a tradesman’s advice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...taken the advice of that bagman of a captain...”

◼️ 639. Who is the "bagman of a captain" Sergius refers to?
(a) A Swiss captain.  (b) A Russian colonel.  (c) Nicola.  (d) His mentor.
✅ Answer: (a) A Swiss captain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...that bagman of a captain that settled the exchange...”

◼️ 640. What transaction does Petkoff recall from Peerot?
(a) Weapon smuggling.  (b) Prisoner exchange.  (c) Horse negotiation.  (d) Military alliance.
✅ Answer: (c) Horse negotiation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He over-reached us about those horses.”

◼️ 641. What profession did the Swiss captain’s father have?
(a) Banker.  (b) Butcher.  (c) Hotel and livery stable keeper.  (d) Army colonel.
✅ Answer: (c) Hotel and livery stable keeper.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “His father was a hotel and livery stable keeper...”

◼️ 642. According to Sergius, how did the captain get his first step?
(a) Through family influence.  (b) Through horse-dealing knowledge.  (c) Bravery.  (d) Bribery.
✅ Answer: (b) Through horse-dealing knowledge.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he owed his first step to his knowledge of horse-dealing.”

◼️ 643. Sergius claims that if he had dealt in horses instead of leading a charge, he would have become:
(a) A general.  (b) A politician.  (c) A field-marshal.  (d) A national hero.
✅ Answer: (c) A field-marshal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I should have been a field-marshal now!”

◼️ 644. Sergius refers to the Swiss captain with what tone?
(a) Reverent.  (b) Bitter.  (c) Mock enthusiastic.  (d) Angry.
✅ Answer: (c) Mock enthusiastic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(With mock enthusiasm.) Ah, he was a soldier...”

◼️ 645. What does Catherine question at the end of the passage?
(a) Why Sergius trusts the captain.  (b) If the Swiss was a traitor.  (c) What a Swiss was doing in the Servian army.  (d) If the horses were stolen.
✅ Answer: (c) What a Swiss was doing in the Servian army.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A Swiss? What was he doing in the Servian army?”

◼️ 646. Sergius’s phrase “soldiering is the coward’s art” is an example of:

(a) Irony.  (b) Simile.  (c) Metaphor.  (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Soldiering... is the coward’s art” compares unlike ideas metaphorically.

◼️ 647. The bowing and bending between Sergius and Raina symbolise:
(a) Superiority.  (b) Courtly love.  (c) National pride.  (d) Generational conflict.
✅ Answer: (b) Courtly love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...she turns to him with a bend of the head; he bows...”

◼️ 648. “He was a soldier—every inch a soldier!” is an example of:
(a) Metonymy.  (b) Hyperbole.  (c) Litotes.  (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: An exaggerated praise, especially given its ironic tone.

◼️ 649. Petkoff’s phrase “I suppose soldiering has to be a trade” reflects:
(a) Personification.  (b) Symbolism.  (c) Realism.  (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (c) Realism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Strips soldiering of glory, viewing it as economic labor.

◼️ 650. The Swiss captain symbolizes:
(a) Honest soldiering.  (b) Business-like militarism.  (c) Heroic bravery.  (d) National pride.
✅ Answer: (b) Business-like militarism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His background and horse dealing success mark him as a symbol of pragmatic war.

◼️ 651. Petkoff’s proud tone toward Raina shows his:

(a) Patriarchal dominance.  (b) Weakness.  (c) Affectionate pride.  (d) Hidden anger.
✅ Answer: (c) Affectionate pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My little pet girl.”

◼️ 652. Catherine calling Raina’s habit “abominable” reveals:
(a) Admiration.  (b) Jealousy.  (c) Irritation with showiness.  (d) Dislike of punctuality.
✅ Answer: (c) Irritation with showiness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She listens for it. It is an abominable habit.”

◼️ 653. Sergius’s speech on soldiering mocks:
(a) Servian politics.  (b) True bravery.  (c) Romanticized war ideals.  (d) Swiss tactics.
✅ Answer: (c) Romanticized war ideals.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...never... fight him on equal terms.”

◼️ 654. Petkoff's memory of being over-reached by the Swiss implies:
(a) Humorous reflection.  (b) Military regret.  (c) Political betrayal.  (d) Shameful loss.
✅ Answer: (a) Humorous reflection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius: I’ve often thought of that exchange since.”

◼️ 655. Catherine’s final question suggests her:
(a) Suspicion of the Swiss.  (b) Ignorance of foreign soldiers.  (c) Focus on military ethics.  (d) Interest in Raina’s suitor.
✅ Answer: (a) Suspicion of the Swiss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A Swiss? What was he doing in the Servian army?”

◼️ 656. According to Petkoff, why were the foreigners important at the beginning of the war?

(a) They had advanced weapons. (b) They gave funds. (c) They taught them how to fight. (d) They sabotaged the enemy.
✅ Answer: (c) They taught them how to fight.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We shouldn’t have been able to begin fighting if these foreigners hadn’t shewn us how to do it...”

◼️ 657. What is Petkoff’s tone when he says “Egad, there’d have been no war without them”?
(a) Angry. (b) Proud. (c) Sarcastic. (d) Amused.
✅ Answer: (d) Amused.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Chuckling.) Egad, there’d have been no war without them.”

◼️ 658. What nationality were most officers in the Servian army, according to Petkoff?
(a) Swiss. (b) Austrians. (c) Germans. (d) French.
✅ Answer: (b) Austrians.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No—all Austrians, just as our officers were all Russians.”

◼️ 659. What does Petkoff say about the Swiss officer?
(a) He was a war hero. (b) He made wise negotiations. (c) He cheated them. (d) He taught them cavalry skills.
✅ Answer: (c) He cheated them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He cheated us—humbugged us into giving him fifty able bodied men...”

◼️ 660. What were the “worn out chargers” exchanged for?
(a) Guns. (b) Rations. (c) Able-bodied men. (d) Horseshoes.
✅ Answer: (c) Able-bodied men.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...for two hundred confounded worn out chargers.”

◼️ 661. What is Petkoff’s sarcastic comment about the horses?
(a) They couldn’t stand. (b) They weren’t even fast. (c) They weren’t even eatable. (d) They were ghosts.
✅ Answer: (c) They weren’t even eatable.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They weren’t even eatable!”

◼️ 662. How does Sergius describe their helplessness against the Swiss officer?
(a) Like kittens in the dark. (b) Like defeated soldiers. (c) Like innocent children. (d) Like confused diplomats.
✅ Answer: (c) Like innocent children.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...simply two innocent little children.”

◼️ 663. Who first asks what the Swiss was like?
(a) Catherine. (b) Petkoff. (c) Raina. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. What was he like?”

◼️ 664. How does Catherine react to Raina’s question about the Swiss officer?
(a) Approvingly. (b) With delight. (c) Indifferently. (d) Disapprovingly.
✅ Answer: (d) Disapprovingly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, Raina, what a silly question!”

◼️ 665. How does Sergius describe the Swiss officer’s appearance?
(a) Regal and fierce. (b) Like a prince. (c) Like a commercial traveller. (d) Like a cunning fox.
✅ Answer: (c) Like a commercial traveller.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He was like a commercial traveller in uniform.”

◼️ 666. What term does Sergius use to mock the officer’s class or origin?
(a) Bourgeois. (b) Servian. (c) Peasant. (d) Foreign.
✅ Answer: (a) Bourgeois.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bourgeois to his boots.”

◼️ 667. Who recalls the story about the officer’s escape?
(a) Catherine. (b) Petkoff. (c) Raina. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) Petkoff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius: tell Catherine that queer story his friend told us about him...”

◼️ 668. What battle is mentioned in connection with the officer’s escape?
(a) Peerot. (b) Belgrade. (c) Slivnitza. (d) Sofia.
✅ Answer: (c) Slivnitza.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...how he escaped after Slivnitza.”

◼️ 669. Where did the Swiss officer hide?
(a) In a cellar. (b) In a haystack. (c) In a Bulgarian lady’s room. (d) In a barn.
✅ Answer: (c) In a Bulgarian lady’s room.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he had the good taste to take refuge in the chamber of some patriotic young Bulgarian lady.”

◼️ 670. How long did the lady host the Swiss officer?
(a) All night. (b) An hour or so. (c) A few days. (d) Two minutes.
✅ Answer: (b) An hour or so.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She very modestly entertained him for an hour or so...”

◼️ 671. Why did the young lady call her mother?
(a) To seek advice. (b) To make food. (c) To avoid appearing unmaidenly. (d) To ask for help.
✅ Answer: (c) To avoid appearing unmaidenly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...then called in her mother lest her conduct should appear unmaidenly.”

◼️ 672. What happened to the officer the next morning?
(a) He surrendered. (b) He escaped on foot. (c) He was sent off in disguise. (d) He was handed to the police.
✅ Answer: (c) He was sent off in disguise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the fugitive was sent on his way in the morning, disguised...”

◼️ 673. Whose coat was used as disguise?
(a) The officer’s. (b) Nicola’s. (c) Petkoff’s. (d) The master of the house.
✅ Answer: (d) The master of the house.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...in an old coat belonging to the master of the house...”

◼️ 674. How does Raina react to Sergius's story?
(a) With amusement. (b) With pride. (c) With cold anger. (d) With romantic fascination.
✅ Answer: (c) With cold anger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(rising with marked stateliness)... She turns away coldly.”

◼️ 675. How does Catherine respond to Raina’s reaction?
(a) She mocks her. (b) She agrees. (c) She questions her. (d) She ignores it.
✅ Answer: (b) She agrees.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She is right, Sergius.”

◼️ 676. “Two innocent little children” is an example of:

(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used metaphorically for helplessness.

◼️ 677. “Bourgeois to his boots” uses:
(a) Alliteration. (b) Metonymy. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Symbolism.
✅ Answer: (a) Alliteration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bourgeois” and “boots” create a sharp, alliterative phrase.

◼️ 678. The coat used to disguise the officer symbolizes:
(a) Deception. (b) Respect. (c) Class. (d) Wealth.
✅ Answer: (a) Deception.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The coat conceals identity.

◼️ 679. The reference to a “commercial traveller in uniform” is a figure of:
(a) Irony. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Allegory. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A soldier mocked for looking like a salesman.

◼️ 680. “He had the good taste to take refuge...” is an example of:
(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Irony. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (c) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Said mockingly to disguise cowardice.

◼️ 681. Petkoff’s “They weren’t even eatable!” suggests:

(a) Absurdity of war deals. (b) Hunger issues. (c) Soldier complaints. (d) True disappointment.
✅ Answer: (a) Absurdity of war deals.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Ridiculing the value of exchanged horses.

◼️ 682. Raina’s rebuke to Sergius reflects her:
(a) Romantic idealism. (b) Suspicion. (c) Fear of war. (d) Hatred of Swiss.
✅ Answer: (a) Romantic idealism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your life in the camp has made you coarse...”

◼️ 683. Catherine’s line “If such women exist…” implies:
(a) Class arrogance. (b) Denial of reality. (c) Feminist pride. (d) Compassion.
✅ Answer: (b) Denial of reality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We should be spared the knowledge of them.”

◼️ 684. Sergius’s tone in narrating the story is:
(a) Neutral. (b) Bitterly ironic. (c) Joyful. (d) Respectful.
✅ Answer: (b) Bitterly ironic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with bitter irony)...”

◼️ 685. Petkoff’s “Pooh! nonsense! what does it matter?” reveals his:
(a) Disrespect. (b) Indifference to propriety. (c) Shock. (d) Loyalty.
✅ Answer: (b) Indifference to propriety.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Shows a dismissive attitude toward moral outrage.

◼️ 686. How does Sergius feel about his previous remarks?
(a) Proud. (b) Justified. (c) Ashamed. (d) Angry.
✅ Answer: (c) Ashamed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(ashamed). No, Petkoff: I was wrong.”

◼️ 687. To whom does Sergius first apologize directly?
(a) Catherine. (b) Petkoff. (c) Raina. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I beg your pardon. I have behaved abominably. Forgive me, Raina.”

◼️ 688. How does Raina react to Sergius’s apology?
(a) Smiles gently. (b) Turns away. (c) Bows reservedly. (d) Embraces him.
✅ Answer: (c) Bows reservedly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She bows reservedly.)”

◼️ 689. How does Catherine respond to Sergius’s apology?
(a) Coldly. (b) Graciously. (c) With a reprimand. (d) Indifferently.
✅ Answer: (b) Graciously.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Catherine bows graciously and sits down.)”

◼️ 690. What reason does Sergius give for his cynical behaviour?
(a) A bad upbringing. (b) War trauma. (c) Seamy side of life. (d) Jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Seamy side of life.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The glimpses I have had of the seamy side of life during the last few months...”

◼️ 691. What does Sergius regret most about his cynicism?
(a) Sharing it with Catherine. (b) Showing it before Raina. (c) Being seen by Petkoff. (d) Losing his honour.
✅ Answer: (b) Showing it before Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...but I should not have brought my cynicism here—least of all into your presence, Raina.”

◼️ 692. Who interrupts Sergius just as he’s about to begin a long speech?
(a) Raina. (b) Catherine. (c) Petkoff. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Petkoff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...he is evidently about to begin a long speech when the Major interrupts him.”

◼️ 693. How does Petkoff describe Sergius’s apology and fuss?
(a) Sensible. (b) Noble. (c) Stuff and nonsense. (d) Highly necessary.
✅ Answer: (c) Stuff and nonsense.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Stuff and nonsense, Sergius. That’s quite enough fuss about nothing...”

◼️ 694. What does Petkoff say a soldier’s daughter should tolerate?
(a) Long speeches. (b) Orders. (c) Insults. (d) Strong conversation.
✅ Answer: (d) Strong conversation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A soldier’s daughter should be able to stand up without flinching to a little strong conversation.”

◼️ 695. What military issue is Petkoff concerned with?
(a) Weapon supplies. (b) Food shortage. (c) Returning regiments. (d) Enemy spies.
✅ Answer: (c) Returning regiments.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have to make up our minds how those three regiments are to get back to Phillipopolis...”

◼️ 696. Why can’t the regiments take the Sofia route?
(a) It is blocked. (b) It is unsafe. (c) There is no forage. (d) Enemy camps lie there.
✅ Answer: (c) There is no forage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s no forage for them on the Sofia route.”

◼️ 697. Who suggests Sergius should stay behind with Raina?
(a) Raina. (b) Catherine. (c) Sergius himself. (d) Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (b) Catherine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, Paul, can’t you spare Sergius for a few moments?”

◼️ 698. What reason does Catherine give for wanting Sergius to stay?
(a) He is tired. (b) Raina has barely seen him. (c) She dislikes the war talk. (d) Raina is crying.
✅ Answer: (b) Raina has barely seen him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Raina has hardly seen him yet.”

◼️ 699. How does Catherine distract Petkoff from taking Sergius away?
(a) Offers him food. (b) Talks about Nicola. (c) Mentions the electric bell. (d) Asks about battle plans.
✅ Answer: (c) Mentions the electric bell.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now, dear (taking Petkoff’s arm), come and see the electric bell.”

◼️ 700. How does Petkoff respond to Catherine’s suggestion?
(a) He refuses. (b) He insists Sergius come. (c) He agrees. (d) He gets angry.
✅ Answer: (c) He agrees.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, very well, very well.”

◼️ 701. What gesture from Raina shows she is no longer angry with Sergius?
(a) She kisses him. (b) She smiles and stretches her arms. (c) She walks to him. (d) She applauds him.
✅ Answer: (b) She smiles and stretches her arms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She smiles, and stretches out her arms to him.”

◼️ 702. How does Sergius approach Raina after being left alone with her?
(a) Passionately. (b) Coldly. (c) Hesitantly. (d) With indifference.
✅ Answer: (c) Hesitantly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(hastening to her, but refraining from touching her without express permission)”

◼️ 703. What term of admiration does Raina use for Sergius?
(a) Brave knight. (b) My world. (c) My hero, my king. (d) My warrior.
✅ Answer: (c) My hero, my king.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My hero! My king.”

◼️ 704. Where does Sergius kiss Raina?
(a) On the hand. (b) On the lips. (c) On the cheek. (d) On the forehead.
✅ Answer: (d) On the forehead.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He kisses her on the forehead with holy awe.”

◼️ 705. What emotion does Raina express about not participating in the war?
(a) Jealousy. (b) Envy. (c) Shame. (d) Resentment.
✅ Answer: (b) Envy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “How I have envied you, Sergius!”

◼️ 706. “My hero! My king” is an example of:

(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Metaphor. (d) Litotes.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes Sergius symbolically as a heroic figure.

◼️ 707. “Gone through the war like a knight in a tournament” is a:
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...like a knight in a tournament with his lady looking on.”

◼️ 708. The “electric bell” in this scene symbolizes:
(a) Distraction. (b) Wealth. (c) Technological intrusion. (d) False sophistication.
✅ Answer: (a) Distraction.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine uses it to divert Paul.

◼️ 709. “Strong conversation” is a euphemism for:
(a) Military orders. (b) Harsh or improper speech. (c) Intense flirting. (d) Secret plotting.
✅ Answer: (b) Harsh or improper speech.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used by Petkoff to downplay Sergius’s comments.

◼️ 710. “Kisses her on the forehead with holy awe” reflects which literary device?
(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Symbolism. (d) Pathetic fallacy.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Symbolic of reverence and idealism in love.

◼️ 711. “Seamy side of life” implies:

(a) Battlefield suffering. (b) Everyday romance. (c) Ugly realities of society. (d) Medical hardships.
✅ Answer: (c) Ugly realities of society.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Refers to the cynical truths Sergius witnessed.

◼️ 712. “Holy awe” in the context of the kiss suggests:
(a) Supernatural fear. (b) Sensual desire. (c) Religious reverence. (d) Idealized respect.
✅ Answer: (d) Idealized respect.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Love portrayed as sacred and pure.

◼️ 713. Raina’s words “doing nothing that could give me the right...” reflect her:
(a) Political ambition. (b) Inferiority complex. (c) Romantic guilt. (d) Gender frustration.
✅ Answer: (b) Inferiority complex.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Raina feels unworthy due to her inaction.

◼️ 714. Sergius’s comparison of war to a tournament implies:
(a) Realism. (b) Absurdity. (c) Romanticized warfare. (d) Brutality.
✅ Answer: (c) Romanticized warfare.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...like a knight in a tournament with his lady looking on...”

◼️ 715. Catherine’s playful interruption is designed to:
(a) Control Sergius. (b) Rescue Raina. (c) Foster romance. (d) Delay military plans.
✅ Answer: (c) Foster romance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She engineers privacy for Raina and Sergius.

◼️ 716. What does Raina claim has never happened since Sergius went to war?

(a) She wrote to him daily. (b) She forgot him even once. (c) She dreamt of others. (d) She doubted his love.
✅ Answer: (b) She forgot him even once.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And you have never been absent from my thoughts for a moment.”

◼️ 717. What type of love does Raina believe she and Sergius share?
(a) Romantic love. (b) Higher love. (c) Married love. (d) Forbidden love.
✅ Answer: (b) Higher love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius: I think we two have found the higher love.”

◼️ 718. How does Raina describe the moral impact of her love for Sergius?
(a) It weakens her emotions. (b) It keeps her silent. (c) It prevents ignoble thoughts. (d) It causes jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) It prevents ignoble thoughts.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.”

◼️ 719. What reverent term does Sergius use for Raina?
(a) My light. (b) My muse. (c) My lady, and my saint. (d) My war angel.
✅ Answer: (c) My lady, and my saint.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My lady, and my saint!”

◼️ 720. What prevents Raina from completing the phrase “My lord and my g—”?
(a) Shyness. (b) Sergius stops her. (c) Louka enters. (d) Petkoff calls her.
✅ Answer: (b) Sergius stops her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sh—sh! Let me be the worshipper, dear.”

◼️ 721. According to Sergius, what does a man not deserve?
(a) A second chance. (b) Military glory. (c) A girl’s pure passion. (d) Political power.
✅ Answer: (c) A girl’s pure passion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You little know how unworthy even the best man is of a girl’s pure passion!”

◼️ 722. What does Raina assure Sergius of before Louka arrives?
(a) Her desire to elope. (b) Her hatred of war. (c) Her trust and love. (d) Her plan to leave soon.
✅ Answer: (c) Her trust and love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I trust you. I love you. You will never disappoint me, Sergius.”

◼️ 723. What breaks the intimacy between Raina and Sergius?
(a) Catherine’s entrance. (b) Louka’s singing. (c) Nicola calling. (d) A knock on the door.
✅ Answer: (b) Louka’s singing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Louka is heard singing within the house. They quickly release each other.)”

◼️ 724. What excuse does Raina give to leave Sergius?
(a) She feels faint. (b) She wants to avoid Louka. (c) She will get her hat. (d) She goes to help her mother.
✅ Answer: (c) She will get her hat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I will go and get my hat; and then we can go out until lunch time.”

◼️ 725. What is Sergius's reaction to Raina leaving him briefly?
(a) He feels relieved. (b) He prepares to follow her. (c) He says it will feel like five hours. (d) He warns her not to delay.
✅ Answer: (c) He says it will feel like five hours.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you are away five minutes, it will seem five hours.”

◼️ 726. How does Raina express affection before leaving?
(a) Blows a kiss with both hands. (b) Calls him “dear”. (c) Waves her hat. (d) Whispers a secret.
✅ Answer: (a) Blows a kiss with both hands.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...wave him a kiss with both hands.”

◼️ 727. What is Sergius’s emotional state after Raina leaves?
(a) Suspicious. (b) Angry. (c) Radiant. (d) Disillusioned.
✅ Answer: (c) Radiant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...his face radiant with the exultation of the scene which has just passed.”

◼️ 728. What triggers Sergius’s shift in attention away from Raina?
(a) Louka’s humming. (b) The sight of Louka’s apron. (c) A sound from the window. (d) A passing servant.
✅ Answer: (b) The sight of Louka’s apron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...into the corner of which there now comes the tail of Louka’s double apron.”

◼️ 729. What is Sergius’s first physical reaction upon noticing Louka?
(a) Adjusts his sword. (b) Twirls his moustache. (c) Calls her by name. (d) Clears his throat.
✅ Answer: (b) Twirls his moustache.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...begins to twirl his moustache nervously...”

◼️ 730. What posture does Sergius take while approaching Louka?
(a) Stooped and cautious. (b) Humble and silent. (c) A cavalry swagger. (d) Arms crossed.
✅ Answer: (c) A cavalry swagger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...in something of a cavalry swagger, he strolls over...”

◼️ 731. How does Sergius initiate the new conversation with Louka?
(a) He offers her money. (b) He greets her as a lady. (c) He asks about higher love. (d) He questions her duties.
✅ Answer: (c) He asks about higher love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka: do you know what the higher love is?”

◼️ 732. How does Louka respond to the question about higher love?
(a) With confusion. (b) With mockery. (c) With confidence. (d) With silence.
✅ Answer: (a) With confusion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(astonished). No, sir.”

◼️ 733. How does Sergius describe “higher love” in terms of endurance?
(a) Refreshing. (b) Fulfilling. (c) Fatiguing. (d) Ideal.
✅ Answer: (c) Fatiguing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Very fatiguing thing to keep up for any length of time, Louka.”

◼️ 734. What does Louka offer Sergius at the table?
(a) Wine. (b) Sugar. (c) Coffee. (d) Dessert.
✅ Answer: (c) Coffee.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Perhaps you would like some coffee, sir?”

◼️ 735. How does Louka pretend to react to Sergius taking her hand?
(a) Laughs flirtatiously. (b) Pulls back with surprise. (c) Cries aloud. (d) Leaves the room.
✅ Answer: (b) Pulls back with surprise.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(pretending to pull). Oh, sir, you know I didn’t mean that.”

◼️ 736. “You little know how unworthy even the best man is...” is an example of:

(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Irony. (d) Litotes.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerates male unworthiness in romantic devotion.

◼️ 737. Raina’s kiss blown with both hands symbolizes:
(a) Farewell. (b) Passion. (c) Devotion and theatricality. (d) Duty.
✅ Answer: (c) Devotion and theatricality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerated, romantic gesture.

◼️ 738. “Cavalry swagger” represents Sergius’s:
(a) Emotional pride. (b) Professional training. (c) Flirtatious arrogance. (d) Confidence in war.
✅ Answer: (c) Flirtatious arrogance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used when approaching Louka flirtatiously.

◼️ 739. Louka’s apron becoming visible functions as:
(a) Symbol of duty. (b) Signal for secrecy. (c) Shift in desire. (d) Trigger for jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Shift in desire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...into the corner of which there now comes the tail of Louka’s double apron.”

◼️ 740. “Very fatiguing thing to keep up for any length of time” refers to:
(a) Class restrictions. (b) Social pretense. (c) Higher love. (d) Moral virtue.
✅ Answer: (c) Higher love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sergius mocks the burden of ideal love.

◼️ 741. When Raina says “My hero! My king.” she is expressing:

(a) Realistic assessment. (b) Sarcastic distance. (c) Romantic idealization. (d) Fear of betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic idealization.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exalts Sergius to an unrealistic pedestal.

◼️ 742. Sergius’s phrase “Let me be the worshipper” reveals:
(a) Gender reversal. (b) Mock humility. (c) Religious devotion. (d) Romantic submission.
✅ Answer: (d) Romantic submission.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He idealizes Raina in a worshipful way.

◼️ 743. Sergius’s line “One feels the need of some relief after it” implies:
(a) War fatigue. (b) Desire for realism in love. (c) Boredom in courtship. (d) A temptation for infidelity.
✅ Answer: (d) A temptation for infidelity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Said while flirting with Louka.

◼️ 744. Louka’s reaction “I’m surprised at you!” is:
(a) Genuine. (b) Ironic and flirtatious. (c) Strictly professional. (d) Angry and offended.
✅ Answer: (b) Ironic and flirtatious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(pretending to pull)... I’m surprised at you!”

◼️ 745. Sergius's transition from Raina to Louka reveals:
(a) Inner loyalty. (b) Self-conflict and hypocrisy. (c) Firm commitment. (d) Sudden grief.
✅ Answer: (b) Self-conflict and hypocrisy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Immediately after professing “higher love,” he flirts with Louka.

◼️ 746. How does Sergius reflect on his own identity when flirting with Louka?

(a) With shame. (b) With confusion. (c) With humor and irony. (d) With pride.
✅ Answer: (c) With humor and irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What would the half dozen Sergiuses who keep popping in and out of this handsome figure of mine say...”

◼️ 747. What physical action does Sergius take after questioning his own image?
(a) Takes her hand. (b) Puts his arm around her waist. (c) Kisses her. (d) Sits down.
✅ Answer: (b) Puts his arm around her waist.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...slipping his arm dexterously round her waist.”

◼️ 748. What is Louka’s immediate reaction to Sergius’s physical closeness?
(a) Encouragement. (b) Indifference. (c) Discomfort and resistance. (d) Gratitude.
✅ Answer: (c) Discomfort and resistance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let me go, sir. I shall be disgraced.”

◼️ 749. How does Sergius respond when Louka demands release?
(a) He apologizes. (b) He laughs. (c) He stares and says “No.” (d) He retreats.
✅ Answer: (c) He stares and says “No.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(looking straight into her eyes). No.”

◼️ 750. What practical suggestion does Louka make while protesting?
(a) He should confess to Raina. (b) He should marry her. (c) They should hide from view. (d) They should run away.
✅ Answer: (c) They should hide from view.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then stand back where we can’t be seen.”

◼️ 751. Where does Sergius take Louka to avoid being seen?
(a) Behind the curtain. (b) Into the stableyard gateway. (c) Into the house. (d) Behind the statue.
✅ Answer: (b) Into the stableyard gateway.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He takes her into the stableyard gateway...)”

◼️ 752. Whom does Louka fear may be watching from the window?
(a) Catherine. (b) Nicola. (c) Raina. (d) Major Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (c) Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Miss Raina is sure to be spying about after you.”

◼️ 753. How does Sergius react to Louka’s suspicion about Raina?
(a) He laughs. (b) He slaps her. (c) He is stung and releases her. (d) He continues to flirt.
✅ Answer: (c) He is stung and releases her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(stung—letting her go)...”

◼️ 754. What insult does Sergius refuse to accept from Louka?
(a) That she doubts his bravery. (b) That she mocks his love. (c) That she insults “the higher love.” (d) That she loves someone else.
✅ Answer: (c) That she insults “the higher love.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...do not you insult it.”

◼️ 755. What tone does Louka adopt immediately after Sergius scolds her?
(a) Defiant. (b) Demure. (c) Angry. (d) Sarcastic.
✅ Answer: (b) Demure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(demurely). Not for the world, sir, I’m sure.”

◼️ 756. What request does Louka make after her “demure” reply?
(a) To be left alone. (b) To go on with her work. (c) To leave the house. (d) To speak to Raina.
✅ Answer: (b) To go on with her work.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “May I go on with my work please, now?”

◼️ 757. How does Sergius refer to Louka when resuming flirtation?
(a) Beautiful peasant. (b) Little witch. (c) Foolish girl. (d) Flirty servant.
✅ Answer: (b) Little witch.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You are a provoking little witch, Louka.”

◼️ 758. What does Sergius ask Louka about spying?
(a) Would she tell on him? (b) Would she mind if Raina spied on her? (c) Would she spy on him if she were in love with him? (d) Would she spy for Nicola?
✅ Answer: (c) Would she spy on him if she were in love with him?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If you were in love with me, would you spy out of windows on me?”

◼️ 759. What does Louka say about keeping track of all the “Sergiuses”?
(a) That it’s impossible. (b) That she could never know the real one. (c) That she’d have a lot to look after. (d) That they all deceive.
✅ Answer: (c) That she’d have a lot to look after.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I should have a great deal to look after.”

◼️ 760. How does Sergius react to Louka’s witty answer?
(a) He frowns. (b) He is charmed. (c) He ignores her. (d) He becomes angry.
✅ Answer: (b) He is charmed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(charmed). Witty as well as pretty.”

◼️ 761. What does Louka reject from Sergius after he is charmed?
(a) A gift. (b) His touch. (c) His kiss. (d) His compliment.
✅ Answer: (c) His kiss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(avoiding him). No, I don’t want your kisses.”

◼️ 762. What accusation does Louka make against both Sergius and Raina?
(a) That they lie to each other. (b) That they are secretly engaged to others. (c) That they both make love behind each other’s backs. (d) That they pretend to be virtuous.
✅ Answer: (c) That they both make love behind each other’s backs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...you making love to me behind Miss Raina’s back, and she doing the same behind yours.”

◼️ 763. How does Sergius respond to Louka’s accusation about Raina?
(a) With confusion. (b) With cold formality. (c) With laughter. (d) With a slap.
✅ Answer: (b) With cold formality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(dropping his familiarity and speaking with freezing politeness)”

◼️ 764. What rule of gentlemanly conduct does Sergius invoke?
(a) Never court a servant. (b) Always respect the code of honour. (c) Don’t discuss a lady’s conduct with her maid. (d) Don't reveal military secrets.
✅ Answer: (c) Don’t discuss a lady’s conduct with her maid.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...a gentleman does not discuss the conduct of the lady he is engaged to with her maid.”

◼️ 765. What does Louka ironically say about gentlemen's standards?
(a) They change daily. (b) They are hard to understand. (c) They lack sincerity. (d) They pretend to be noble.
✅ Answer: (b) They are hard to understand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It’s so hard to know what a gentleman considers right.”

◼️ 766. “What would the half dozen Sergiuses... say?” is an example of:

(a) Alliteration. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerates his multiple personalities.

◼️ 767. Louka calling Sergius “one of many gentlemen” suggests:
(a) Inner confusion. (b) Class difference. (c) His duplicity and changeability. (d) His charisma.
✅ Answer: (c) His duplicity and changeability.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Louka’s witty line about having a lot to look after.

◼️ 768. “You are a provoking little witch, Louka.” involves which figure of speech?
(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Euphemism. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Directly likens Louka to a witch.

◼️ 769. The stableyard as a setting symbolizes:
(a) Escape from society. (b) Deception and secrecy. (c) Home and loyalty. (d) Authority and duty.
✅ Answer: (b) Deception and secrecy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: They go there to avoid being seen.

◼️ 770. Louka's refusal to kiss reflects:
(a) Emotional resistance. (b) Class pride. (c) Inner awareness of hypocrisy. (d) All of these.
✅ Answer: (d) All of these.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, I don’t want your kisses...” implies layered resistance.

◼️ 771. Sergius's self-reflection shows his awareness of:

(a) Moral failure. (b) Duality of self. (c) Raina’s deceit. (d) Military pride.
✅ Answer: (b) Duality of self.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He speaks of “half dozen Sergiuses...”

◼️ 772. Louka’s statement about Raina spying implies:
(a) Jealousy. (b) Awareness of romantic hypocrisy. (c) Rage. (d) Revenge.
✅ Answer: (b) Awareness of romantic hypocrisy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Miss Raina is sure to be spying about...”

◼️ 773. Louka’s phrase “behind Miss Raina’s back” reveals:
(a) Betrayal is mutual. (b) Love is sacred. (c) She envies Raina. (d) Raina’s ignorance.
✅ Answer: (a) Betrayal is mutual.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...she doing the same behind yours.”

◼️ 774. Sergius’s freezing politeness suggests:
(a) Inner turmoil masked by manners. (b) True anger. (c) Change of heart. (d) Departure.
✅ Answer: (a) Inner turmoil masked by manners.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Tone shift after Louka insults Raina.

◼️ 775. Louka’s last remark implies that:
(a) Sergius is inconsistent. (b) She regrets her job. (c) She still wants his love. (d) She believes in propriety.
✅ Answer: (a) Sergius is inconsistent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I thought from your trying to kiss me that you had given up being so particular.”

◼️ 776. How does Sergius react when he returns from the gateway?

(a) He whistles. (b) He laughs. (c) He curses. (d) He strikes his forehead.
✅ Answer: (d) He strikes his forehead.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...striking his forehead as he comes back into the garden from the gateway.”

◼️ 777. What word does Sergius exclaim after his dramatic gesture?
(a) Coward! (b) Devil! (c) Raina! (d) Shame!
✅ Answer: (b) Devil!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Devil! devil!”

◼️ 778. What is Louka's response to Sergius’s self-accusation?
(a) She cries. (b) She mocks him. (c) She warns him. (d) She compliments him.
✅ Answer: (b) She mocks him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ha! ha! I expect one of the six of you is very like me, sir...”

◼️ 779. What does Louka imply about Sergius by comparing herself to one of his 'six'?
(a) He is loyal. (b) He has a dark side. (c) He is humble. (d) He is courageous.
✅ Answer: (b) He has a dark side.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...though I am only Miss Raina’s maid.”

◼️ 780. What torments Sergius according to his soliloquy?
(a) Louka’s boldness. (b) War guilt. (c) The question of his true self. (d) Raina’s betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) The question of his true self.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Which of the six is the real man?—that’s the question that torments me.”

◼️ 781. How many facets of himself does Sergius mention?
(a) Three. (b) Five. (c) Six. (d) Seven.
✅ Answer: (c) Six.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug...”

◼️ 782. What is Sergius’s final and most bitter self-description?
(a) A blackguard. (b) A coward. (c) A betrayer. (d) A fool.
✅ Answer: (b) A coward.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And one, at least, is a coward—jealous, like all cowards.”

◼️ 783. What does Sergius call Louka when seeking information about his rival?
(a) Woman. (b) Fool. (c) Louka. (d) Witch.
✅ Answer: (c) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka.”

◼️ 784. What is Louka’s initial response when asked about Sergius’s rival?
(a) “I don’t know.” (b) “You’ll never know.” (c) “You shall never get that out of me...” (d) “He is a brave man.”
✅ Answer: (c) “You shall never get that out of me...”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You shall never get that out of me, for love or money.”

◼️ 785. What is Louka’s reason for not revealing the rival’s identity?
(a) It’s against her values. (b) She fears losing her job. (c) She doesn’t trust Sergius. (d) All of these.
✅ Answer: (d) All of these.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I should lose my place.”

◼️ 786. How does Sergius ironically describe his own honor when trying to reassure Louka?
(a) Honor of a knight. (b) Honor of a fool. (c) Honor of a jealous man. (d) Honor of a man behaving shamefully.
✅ Answer: (d) Honor of a man behaving shamefully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...on the honor of a—... of a man capable of behaving as I have been behaving for the last five minutes.”

◼️ 787. What key detail does Louka give about Raina’s secret admirer?
(a) His name. (b) His profession. (c) His voice through the door. (d) His letter.
✅ Answer: (c) His voice through the door.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I only heard his voice through the door of her room.”

◼️ 788. What is Sergius’s emotional reaction to Louka’s implication?
(a) He laughs. (b) He collapses. (c) He swears. (d) He applauds her honesty.
✅ Answer: (c) He swears.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Damnation! How dare you?”

◼️ 789. How does Louka defend herself after Sergius's outburst?
(a) She cries. (b) She says he misunderstood her words. (c) She threatens to leave. (d) She apologizes.
✅ Answer: (b) She says he misunderstood her words.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “you’ve no right to take up my words like that.”

◼️ 790. What does Louka claim Raina will do if the mystery man returns?
(a) Confess everything. (b) Leave her family. (c) Marry him. (d) Kill herself.
✅ Answer: (c) Marry him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Miss Raina will marry him, whether he likes it or not.”

◼️ 791. What contrast does Louka mention between Raina and Sergius’s behavior?
(a) Public vs. private manner. (b) Class vs. status. (c) Rich vs. poor. (d) Soldier vs. servant.
✅ Answer: (a) Public vs. private manner.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the sort of manner you and she put on before one another and the real manner.”

◼️ 792. What physical reaction does Sergius have to Louka’s observation about Raina?
(a) He clenches his jaw. (b) He shivers. (c) He faints. (d) He cries.
✅ Answer: (b) He shivers.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Sergius shivers as if she had stabbed him.)”

◼️ 793. How does Sergius react after Louka emotionally wounds him?
(a) Laughs bitterly. (b) Apologizes. (c) Grabs her forcefully. (d) Ignores her.
✅ Answer: (c) Grabs her forcefully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...grips her above the elbows with both hands.”

◼️ 794. What is Louka’s immediate response to Sergius’s rough grip?
(a) She cries. (b) She insults him. (c) She asks him to loosen up. (d) She runs.
✅ Answer: (c) She asks him to loosen up.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Not so tight: you’re hurting me!”

◼️ 795. What dual accusation does Sergius make at the end of the passage?
(a) Louka ruined his future and betrayed the army. (b) She made him eavesdrop and betrayed Raina. (c) She blackmailed him and lied. (d) She is disloyal and cowardly.
✅ Answer: (b) She made him eavesdrop and betrayed Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have stained my honor by making me a party to your eavesdropping. And you have betrayed your mistress—”

◼️ 796. “Which of the six is the real man?” is an example of:

(a) Simile. (b) Irony. (c) Allegory. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The six personas reflect symbolic facets of his psyche.

◼️ 797. Louka’s mocking laughter—“Ha! ha!”—serves as a:
(a) Dramatic relief. (b) Personification. (c) Symbol of class war. (d) Ironical commentary.
✅ Answer: (d) Ironical commentary.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She mocks his identity crisis.

◼️ 798. Sergius calling himself a coward “jealous, like all cowards” employs:
(a) Hyperbole. (b) Metonymy. (c) Generalization. (d) Litotes.
✅ Answer: (c) Generalization.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He applies his flaw to all cowards.

◼️ 799. Louka hearing “his voice through the door” symbolizes:
(a) Physical boundaries. (b) Emotional distance. (c) Forbidden intimacy. (d) Loyalty.
✅ Answer: (c) Forbidden intimacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Suggests hidden romance.

◼️ 800. Sergius “shivering” after Louka's remark symbolizes:
(a) Cold weather. (b) Psychological shock. (c) Anger. (d) Love.
✅ Answer: (b) Psychological shock.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...as if she had stabbed him.”

◼️ 801. “Devil! devil!” expresses Sergius’s:

(a) Hatred of Louka. (b) War trauma. (c) Self-loathing and guilt. (d) Jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Self-loathing and guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Uttered after romantic hypocrisy.

◼️ 802. Louka’s comparison to “one of the six” implies:
(a) She sees herself as equal. (b) She pities him. (c) She’s mocking. (d) She forgives him.
✅ Answer: (a) She sees herself as equal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...though I am only Miss Raina’s maid.”

◼️ 803. “Honor of a man capable of behaving...” reflects:
(a) Noble sentiment. (b) Sarcastic disillusionment. (c) Emotional maturity. (d) Comic relief.
✅ Answer: (b) Sarcastic disillusionment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...for the last five minutes.”

◼️ 804. Louka’s words “you’ve no right to take up my words like that” suggest:
(a) Innocence. (b) Verbal manipulation. (c) Class resistance. (d) Defensive reversal.
✅ Answer: (d) Defensive reversal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She retreats from implication.

◼️ 805. Sergius’s final accusation reveals his struggle between:
(a) Love and war. (b) Pride and passion. (c) Moral ideals and emotional reality. (d) Duty and desire.
✅ Answer: (c) Moral ideals and emotional reality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have stained my honor...”

◼️ 806. What physical reaction does Louka show after Sergius grips her?

(a) She faints. (b) She writhes. (c) She cries aloud. (d) She laughs nervously.
✅ Answer: (b) She writhes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “LOUKA. (writhing). Please—”

◼️ 807. How does Sergius insult Louka’s character?
(a) Liar. (b) Snake. (c) Clod of common clay. (d) Cheat.
✅ Answer: (c) Clod of common clay.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...an abominable little clod of common clay...”

◼️ 808. What metaphor does Sergius use to describe Louka’s soul?
(a) A traitor’s soul. (b) Soul of a thief. (c) Soul of a servant. (d) Soul of mud.
✅ Answer: (c) Soul of a servant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with the soul of a servant.”

◼️ 809. What gesture does Sergius make after releasing Louka?
(a) Salutes her. (b) Dusts his hands of her. (c) Kneels. (d) Turns his back and whistles.
✅ Answer: (b) Dusts his hands of her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...dusting his hands of her...”

◼️ 810. Where does Sergius go after letting Louka go?
(a) Into the house. (b) Towards the gate. (c) To the bench by the wall. (d) Behind the curtain.
✅ Answer: (c) To the bench by the wall.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...to the bench by the wall, where he sits down...”

◼️ 811. How does Louka respond to Sergius's insult?
(a) Laughs sarcastically. (b) Cries bitterly. (c) Whimpers angrily. (d) Remains silent.
✅ Answer: (c) Whimpers angrily.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “LOUKA. (whimpering angrily...)”

◼️ 812. What does Louka accuse Raina of being?
(a) Jealous and cruel. (b) A liar with fake airs. (c) Selfish and heartless. (d) Immoral.
✅ Answer: (b) A liar with fake airs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...she’s a liar; and her fine airs are a cheat...”

◼️ 813. According to Louka, how many times is she worth compared to Raina?
(a) Three times. (b) Ten times. (c) Six times. (d) Twice.
✅ Answer: (c) Six times.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I’m worth six of her.”

◼️ 814. What does Louka do after asserting her worth?
(a) Walks off. (b) Cries. (c) Sets to work packing the tray. (d) Calls Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Sets to work packing the tray.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...sets to work to put the things on the tray.”

◼️ 815. What is Sergius’s expression after Louka’s defiance?
(a) He mocks her. (b) He ignores her. (c) He looks at her doubtfully. (d) He calls her a fool.
✅ Answer: (c) He looks at her doubtfully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He looks doubtfully at her once or twice.”

◼️ 816. What does Sergius say about hurting a woman?
(a) It’s dishonorable. (b) It’s a mistake. (c) A gentleman should never do it. (d) It’s justifiable in anger.
✅ Answer: (c) A gentleman should never do it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A gentleman has no right to hurt a woman under any circumstances.”

◼️ 817. What gesture does Sergius make to show humility?
(a) Kneels. (b) Bows. (c) Uncovers his head. (d) Sheds a tear.
✅ Answer: (c) Uncovers his head.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(With profound humility, uncovering his head.)”

◼️ 818. How does Louka respond to Sergius’s apology?
(a) Gratefully. (b) Indifferently. (c) Sarcastically. (d) With tears.
✅ Answer: (c) Sarcastically.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That sort of apology may satisfy a lady...”

◼️ 819. What does Sergius offer Louka as compensation?
(a) A letter. (b) Money. (c) A kiss. (d) Jewelry.
✅ Answer: (b) Money.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He puts on his shako, and takes some money from his pocket.)”

◼️ 820. What is Louka’s emotional reaction to the offer of money?
(a) Anger. (b) Sarcasm. (c) Her eyes fill with tears. (d) Joy.
✅ Answer: (c) Her eyes fill with tears.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(her eyes filling with tears in spite of herself)”

◼️ 821. What does Louka truly want instead of money?
(a) Justice. (b) Respect. (c) Her hurt made well. (d) Marriage.
✅ Answer: (c) Her hurt made well.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No, I want my hurt made well.”

◼️ 822. What physical gesture does Louka make to show her bruised arm?
(a) She points to it. (b) She raises it high. (c) She clasps it with her other hand. (d) She rubs it.
✅ Answer: (c) She clasps it with her other hand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “clasps her arm with the thumb and fingers of her right hand”

◼️ 823. What does Louka demand in a powerful, silent gesture?
(a) That he bow. (b) That he kiss her arm. (c) That he leave. (d) That he marry her.
✅ Answer: (b) That he kiss her arm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with a superb gesture she presents her arm to be kissed.”

◼️ 824. What is Sergius’s final response to the arm gesture?
(a) He apologizes again. (b) He kisses it. (c) He walks away in silence. (d) He says “Never!” and backs away.
✅ Answer: (d) He says “Never!” and backs away.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Never! (and gets away as far as possible from her.)”

◼️ 825. What is Louka’s response after Sergius rejects her gesture?
(a) She weeps. (b) She walks away with dignity. (c) She screams. (d) She begs.
✅ Answer: (b) She walks away with dignity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with unaffected dignity, she takes her tray...”

◼️ 826. “Clod of common clay” is an example of:

(a) Metonymy. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes Louka as emotionally and socially inferior.

◼️ 827. “Dusting his hands of her” symbolizes:
(a) Casual rejection. (b) Disgust and moral disassociation. (c) Joyful release. (d) Cleanliness.
✅ Answer: (b) Disgust and moral disassociation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Shows he treats her as soiled and beneath him.

◼️ 828. Louka presenting her arm to be kissed symbolizes:
(a) Passive protest. (b) Demand for romantic union. (c) Assertion of dignity and equality. (d) Plea for mercy.
✅ Answer: (c) Assertion of dignity and equality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her gesture is commanding and silent.

◼️ 829. Sergius’s removal of his hat represents:
(a) Defeat. (b) Insincerity. (c) Humility and honor. (d) Formality.
✅ Answer: (c) Humility and honor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(With profound humility, uncovering his head.)”

◼️ 830. Louka's phrase “I want my hurt made well” functions as a:
(a) Symbol of healing and recognition. (b) Literal medical request. (c) Emotional blackmail. (d) Euphemism for money.
✅ Answer: (a) Symbol of healing and recognition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her hurt is emotional and symbolic.

◼️ 831. “That sort of apology may satisfy a lady” implies:

(a) Louka values money. (b) Louka feels overlooked by social gestures. (c) Louka forgives easily. (d) Louka envies Raina.
✅ Answer: (b) Louka feels overlooked by social gestures.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She challenges class-based consolation.

◼️ 832. Sergius’s bitter laugh after being ‘rudely crossed’ reflects:
(a) Confidence. (b) Class shame. (c) Chivalric disillusionment. (d) Comic relief.
✅ Answer: (c) Chivalric disillusionment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(thus rudely crossed in his chivalry, throws it off with a bitter laugh...)”

◼️ 833. Louka’s defiant presentation of her bruise is a demand for:
(a) Romance. (b) Recognition and respect. (c) Physical healing. (d) Sympathy.
✅ Answer: (b) Recognition and respect.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It is silent, yet forceful.

◼️ 834. Sergius’s final word “Never!” after the arm gesture shows:
(a) Arrogance. (b) Despair. (c) Internal conflict and fear of social breach. (d) Hatred.
✅ Answer: (c) Internal conflict and fear of social breach.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He recoils not out of hate, but turmoil.

◼️ 835. Louka’s quiet withdrawal with “unaffected dignity” reveals:
(a) Emotional collapse. (b) Moral superiority. (c) Obedience. (d) Confusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Moral superiority.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her silence is more powerful than a speech.

◼️ 836. How does Raina describe her own remark to Sergius?
(a) A mistake. (b) A betrayal. (c) A jest. (d) A misunderstanding.
✅ Answer: (c) A jest.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Forgive me, dear: it was only a jest.”

◼️ 837. What emotion does Raina feel when she apologizes to Sergius?
(a) Amusement. (b) Jealousy. (c) Shame. (d) Anger.
✅ Answer: (c) Shame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. (ashamed of herself).”

◼️ 838. What does Sergius do in response to Raina's apology?
(a) Embraces her. (b) Laughs. (c) Kisses her hand. (d) Bows silently.
✅ Answer: (c) Kisses her hand.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He goes quickly to her, and kisses her hand remorsefully.”

◼️ 839. What interrupts Raina and Sergius’s moment together?
(a) Bluntschli’s arrival. (b) Louka’s entrance. (c) Catherine’s call. (d) Nicola’s warning.
✅ Answer: (c) Catherine’s call.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Catherine comes out and calls to them...”

◼️ 840. Where is Major Petkoff during this scene?
(a) In the drawing room. (b) In the garden. (c) In the library. (d) At the gate.
✅ Answer: (c) In the library.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is in the library.”

◼️ 841. What military issue is Paul Petkoff concerned with?
(a) Capturing the enemy. (b) Delivering a message. (c) Transporting three regiments. (d) Firing a Swiss soldier.
✅ Answer: (c) Transporting three regiments.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Paul is distracted over those three regiments.”

◼️ 842. How does Raina react when Catherine asks Sergius to help Paul?
(a) Angry. (b) Disappointed. (c) Relieved. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Disappointed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. (disappointed). But we are just going out for a walk.”

◼️ 843. How long does Sergius ask Raina to wait?
(a) Ten minutes. (b) Half an hour. (c) Five minutes. (d) One minute.
✅ Answer: (c) Five minutes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Wait for me just five minutes.”

◼️ 844. Where does Raina say she will wait for Sergius?
(a) Inside the house. (b) At the gate. (c) In full view of the library windows. (d) Beside the bench.
✅ Answer: (c) In full view of the library windows.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I shall go round and wait in full view of the library windows.”

◼️ 845. What does Raina threaten if Sergius takes longer than promised?
(a) To tell her father. (b) To leave. (c) To enter and fetch him. (d) To break up with him.
✅ Answer: (c) To enter and fetch him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I shall go in and fetch you, regiments or no regiments.”

◼️ 846. How does Sergius react to Raina's threat to fetch him?
(a) He frowns. (b) He warns her. (c) He laughs. (d) He scolds her.
✅ Answer: (c) He laughs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SERGIUS. (laughing). Very well.”

◼️ 847. What does Raina do after Sergius leaves?
(a) Sits silently. (b) Smiles and chats with Catherine. (c) Paces in a brown study. (d) Cries softly.
✅ Answer: (c) Paces in a brown study.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...she begins to pace up and down about the garden in a brown study.”

◼️ 848. What does Catherine say might happen due to the Swiss's return?
(a) War might resume. (b) Their secrets may be exposed. (c) Raina might be embarrassed. (d) Sergius might get jealous.
✅ Answer: (b) Their secrets may be exposed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Imagine their meeting that Swiss and hearing the whole story!”

◼️ 849. What is the first thing Paul asked about, according to Catherine?
(a) Bluntschli’s identity. (b) Louka’s involvement. (c) The coat. (d) The regiments.
✅ Answer: (c) The coat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The very first thing your father asked for was the old coat...”

◼️ 850. What name does Raina call the Swiss fugitive?
(a) Coward. (b) Little beast. (c) Joker. (d) Idiot.
✅ Answer: (b) Little beast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. The little beast!”

◼️ 851. What is Raina’s absurd suggestion for punishing the Swiss?
(a) Shooting him. (b) Banishing him. (c) Stuffing him with chocolate creams. (d) Locking him up.
✅ Answer: (c) Stuffing him with chocolate creams.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I’d stuff him with chocolate creams till he couldn’t ever speak again!”

◼️ 852. What is Catherine’s response to Raina’s comment about chocolate?
(a) She agrees. (b) She warns her. (c) She laughs. (d) She calls it nonsense.
✅ Answer: (d) She calls it nonsense.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Don’t talk nonsense.”

◼️ 853. What specific question does Catherine ask about the Swiss’s presence?
(a) Was he really a soldier? (b) Did he know Raina? (c) Was he in the room before or after the soldiers left? (d) Did he escape via the window?
✅ Answer: (c) Was he in the room before or after the soldiers left?
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...was he there when that officer searched the room?”

◼️ 854. How does Raina respond when asked how long the Swiss was in her room?
(a) Clearly explains. (b) Whispers the truth. (c) Says she forgets. (d) Lies about it.
✅ Answer: (c) Says she forgets.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, I forget.”

◼️ 855. What direction does Raina take after Catherine’s probing?
(a) She walks away. (b) She runs inside. (c) She recommences her march in the opposite direction. (d) She sits down.
✅ Answer: (c) She recommences her march in the opposite direction.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...whisking round and recommencing her march in the opposite direction.”

◼️ 856. “Brown study” is an example of:

(a) Personification. (b) Idiom. (c) Simile. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Idiom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Means deep or melancholic thought.

◼️ 857. “Stuff him with chocolate creams...” is an example of:
(a) Satire. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Allegory. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (b) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: An exaggerated way to express anger.

◼️ 858. Raina’s “timid coquetry” is symbolic of:
(a) Childish naivety. (b) Calculated flirtation. (c) Passive-aggressive rebellion. (d) Role-play of romantic ideals.
✅ Answer: (d) Role-play of romantic ideals.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...looking up at him with timid coquetry.”

◼️ 859. The coat represents:
(a) Shelter. (b) Deception and memory. (c) Poverty. (d) Political alliance.
✅ Answer: (b) Deception and memory.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A physical object tying to the hidden past.

◼️ 860. The chocolate creams symbolize:
(a) Romance. (b) Indulgence. (c) Irony and affection. (d) Fear.
✅ Answer: (c) Irony and affection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used to express love and now threatened as punishment.

◼️ 861. Raina’s claim “I forget” actually shows:

(a) Memory lapse. (b) Avoidance and guilt. (c) Fear of mother. (d) Emotional detachment.
✅ Answer: (b) Avoidance and guilt.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She deflects under pressure.

◼️ 862. “Regiments or no regiments” implies:
(a) Her dislike for soldiers. (b) Her urgency over love. (c) Her disregard for authority. (d) Her teasing dominance.
✅ Answer: (d) Her teasing dominance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Used flirtatiously to assert her importance.

◼️ 863. Catherine’s “nice mess” comment reveals:
(a) Pity. (b) Anger. (c) Ironic blame. (d) Sympathy.
✅ Answer: (c) Ironic blame.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A nice mess you have got us into!”

◼️ 864. Raina’s term “little beast” is a mix of:
(a) Literal insult. (b) Endearment and rage. (c) Romantic jealousy. (d) Guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Endearment and rage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her anger comes from emotional vulnerability.

◼️ 865. Sergius kissing Raina’s hand after her jest signals:
(a) Insincerity. (b) Unquestioning devotion. (c) Fear. (d) Mechanical courtesy.
✅ Answer: (b) Unquestioning devotion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...kisses her hand remorsefully.”

◼️ 866. What is Catherine’s tone when she exclaims “Will anything ever make you straightforward?”

(a) Humorous (b) Envious (c) Exasperated (d) Curious
✅ Answer: (c) Exasperated.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Will anything ever make you straightforward?”

◼️ 867. What does Catherine fear might happen if Sergius finds out the truth?
(a) He’ll leave the army. (b) He’ll confront the Swiss. (c) He’ll end the engagement. (d) He’ll reveal it to Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (c) He’ll end the engagement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If Sergius finds out, it is all over between you.”

◼️ 868. What does Raina accuse Catherine of regarding Sergius?
(a) Hating him secretly. (b) Wanting to marry him. (c) Distrusting him. (d) Ignoring him.
✅ Answer: (b) Wanting to marry him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I sometimes wish you could marry him instead of me.”

◼️ 869. How does Catherine react to Raina’s sarcasm about Sergius?
(a) She laughs. (b) She cries. (c) She opens her eyes widely. (d) She walks away.
✅ Answer: (c) She opens her eyes widely.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(opening her eyes very widely indeed).”

◼️ 870. What scandalous impulse does Raina confess about her relationship with Sergius?
(a) To lie to him. (b) To avoid him. (c) To shock his propriety. (d) To elope with another.
✅ Answer: (c) To shock his propriety.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I always feel a longing... to shock his propriety.”

◼️ 871. What does Raina mean by saying she wants to “scandalize the five senses out of him”?
(a) Make him speechless. (b) Offend his delicate nature. (c) Humiliate him publicly. (d) Wake him up to reality.
✅ Answer: (b) Offend his delicate nature.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...to scandalize the five senses out of him!”

◼️ 872. How does Raina feel about the truth of the chocolate cream soldier coming out?
(a) She dreads it. (b) She’s confident it’ll remain hidden. (c) She doesn’t care. (d) She denies it happened.
✅ Answer: (c) She doesn’t care.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I don’t care whether he finds out...”

◼️ 873. What gesture does Raina make before exiting?
(a) Curtsies. (b) Flippantly turns away. (c) Glares. (d) Walks slowly backwards.
✅ Answer: (b) Flippantly turns away.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She again turns flippantly away...”

◼️ 874. Where does Raina go after the conversation?
(a) Into the house. (b) Into the garden. (c) Up the path and around the house. (d) To the balcony.
✅ Answer: (c) Up the path and around the house.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...strolls up the path to the corner of the house.”

◼️ 875. What is Catherine’s reaction as she watches Raina leave?
(a) Envy. (b) Tears. (c) Frustrated desire to scold her. (d) Amusement.
✅ Answer: (c) Frustrated desire to scold her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “her fingers itching... if you were only ten years younger!”

◼️ 876. Who enters with a salver after Raina exits?
(a) Nicola. (b) Louka. (c) A messenger. (d) Major Saranoff.
✅ Answer: (b) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “LOUKA comes from the house with a salver...”

◼️ 877. What news does Louka bring?
(a) Nicola’s confession. (b) A lost coat has been found. (c) A gentleman has called. (d) Raina’s secret has been exposed.
✅ Answer: (c) A gentleman has called.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There’s a gentleman just called, madam—a Servian officer—”

◼️ 878. How does Catherine initially react to the mention of a Servian?
(a) Pleased. (b) Shocked and flaming. (c) Indifferent. (d) Confused.
✅ Answer: (b) Shocked and flaming.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(flaming). A Servian! How dare he—”

◼️ 879. What makes Catherine change her angry response about the Servian?
(a) He’s a nobleman. (b) They are now at peace. (c) He brings gifts. (d) She recognizes him.
✅ Answer: (b) They are now at peace.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, I forgot. We are at peace now.”

◼️ 880. What does Catherine assume when Louka says the man asked for “the lady of the house”?
(a) He is an impostor. (b) He’s mistaken. (c) He doesn't know her. (d) He is rude.
✅ Answer: (c) He doesn't know her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And I don’t think he knows who you are...”

◼️ 881. How does Louka describe the way the man introduced himself?
(a) Politely. (b) Rushed. (c) Using a card. (d) Loudly.
✅ Answer: (c) Using a card.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He gave me this little ticket for you.”

◼️ 882. What is written on the card Louka gives Catherine?
(a) Captain Servian (b) Major Petkoff (c) Captain Bluntschli (d) Officer of Peace
✅ Answer: (c) Captain Bluntschli.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE. (reading). ‘Captain Bluntschli!’”

◼️ 883. How does Catherine react when she hears he is Swiss?
(a) Relieved. (b) Confused. (c) With a jump. (d) With laughter.
✅ Answer: (c) With a jump.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with a bound that makes Louka jump back). Swiss!”

◼️ 884. What does Louka say is a distinguishing feature of the caller?
(a) His beard. (b) His medals. (c) His large carpet bag. (d) His moustache.
✅ Answer: (c) His large carpet bag.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He has a big carpet bag, madam.”

◼️ 885. What is Catherine’s final instruction to Louka before she starts thinking?
(a) Invite him in. (b) Send him away. (c) Tell Petkoff. (d) Hide the coat.
✅ Answer: (b) Send him away.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Send him away—say we’re not at home...”

◼️ 886. “Scandalize the five senses out of him” is an example of:

(a) Oxymoron. (b) Simile. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Metaphor.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerated desire to shock propriety.

◼️ 887. Raina’s “flippant” gesture before leaving represents:
(a) Her romantic nature. (b) Her disdain for Catherine’s worry. (c) Her youthfulness. (d) Her fear of being caught.
✅ Answer: (b) Her disdain for Catherine’s worry.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She again turns flippantly away...”

◼️ 888. Catherine’s “fingers itching” is an instance of:
(a) Literal gesture. (b) Metaphor for irritation. (c) Simile. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor for irritation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “her fingers itching.”

◼️ 889. The “carpet bag” carried by the visitor symbolizes:
(a) Peace between nations. (b) Return of hidden truth. (c) Military threat. (d) Rudeness.
✅ Answer: (b) Return of hidden truth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It hints at Bluntschli returning the coat.

◼️ 890. The phrase “pet him, spoil him, and mother him” is an example of:
(a) Sarcastic listing. (b) Irony. (c) Simile. (d) Satirical metaphor.
✅ Answer: (a) Sarcastic listing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You would pet him, and spoil him, and mother him...”

◼️ 891. Raina’s sarcasm about Catherine marrying Sergius reflects:

(a) Jealousy. (b) Fear of commitment. (c) Disdain for false romance. (d) A desire to escape marriage.
✅ Answer: (c) Disdain for false romance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You would just suit him... mother him to perfection.”

◼️ 892. Raina’s hope that Sergius finds out reflects:
(a) Recklessness. (b) Self-sabotage. (c) Desire for authenticity. (d) Hidden hatred.
✅ Answer: (c) Desire for authenticity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I half hope he may.”

◼️ 893. Catherine’s “Oh, poor father!” reply shows Raina’s:
(a) Guilt. (b) Disrespect. (c) Mocking indifference. (d) Helpless affection.
✅ Answer: (c) Mocking indifference.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, poor father! As if he could help himself!”

◼️ 894. Catherine’s sudden check after saying “How dare he” suggests:
(a) She’s conscious of the political shift. (b) She’s afraid of Louka. (c) She’s plotting revenge. (d) She regrets past choices.
✅ Answer: (a) She’s conscious of the political shift.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, I forgot. We are at peace now.”

◼️ 895. Catherine throwing herself into a chair signals:
(a) Relief. (b) Surrender. (c) Strategic panic. (d) Grief.
✅ Answer: (c) Strategic panic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She throws herself into a chair to think it out.”

◼️ 896. What does Catherine snatch impatiently from Louka?

(a) Her apron. (b) A coat. (c) The salver. (d) The bag.
✅ Answer: (c) The salver.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(impatiently snatching the salver from her)”

◼️ 897. What instruction does Catherine give Louka about the gentleman?
(a) Hide him quickly. (b) Be cold to him. (c) Be very polite to him. (d) Tell him to wait.
✅ Answer: (c) Be very polite to him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Imperatively.) And be very polite to him.”

◼️ 898. What task does Catherine assign regarding the library door?
(a) Leave it open. (b) Lock it. (c) Shut it if it’s not shut. (d) Guard it.
✅ Answer: (c) Shut it if it’s not shut.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If not, shut it as you pass through.”

◼️ 899. Who is asked to bring the gentleman’s bag?
(a) Raina. (b) Catherine herself. (c) Nicola. (d) Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (c) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Tell Nicola to bring his bag here...”

◼️ 900. What is Louka’s initial reaction when told about the bag?
(a) Angry. (b) Laughing. (c) Surprised. (d) Calm.
✅ Answer: (c) Surprised.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(surprised). His bag?”

◼️ 901. What does Catherine do with her apron?
(a) Puts it on. (b) Hands it to Louka. (c) Throws it behind a bush. (d) Hides it in the house.
✅ Answer: (c) Throws it behind a bush.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...throws it behind a bush.”

◼️ 902. How does Catherine use the salver after Louka leaves?
(a) As a tray. (b) As a shield. (c) As a mirror. (d) As a message board.
✅ Answer: (c) As a mirror.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...takes up the salver and uses it as a mirror...”

◼️ 903. What happens to Catherine’s handkerchief when she adjusts herself?
(a) It flies away. (b) It follows the apron. (c) It falls in front of her. (d) It remains in place.
✅ Answer: (b) It follows the apron.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the handkerchief tied round her head follows the apron.”

◼️ 904. Catherine’s grooming shows her desire to appear:
(a) Cold and official. (b) Shocked. (c) Presentable. (d) Dramatic.
✅ Answer: (c) Presentable.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...makes her presentable.”

◼️ 905. Catherine criticizes the timing of the visit by saying:
(a) "This is fate." (b) "What an unfortunate hour!" (c) "Such a moment to select!" (d) "Now, of all times!"
✅ Answer: (c) "Such a moment to select!"
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Such a moment to select!”

◼️ 906. Who announces “Captain Bluntschli”?
(a) Catherine. (b) Raina. (c) Nicola. (d) Louka.
✅ Answer: (d) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka appears... announcing ‘Captain Bluntschli;’”

◼️ 907. What is said about Bluntschli’s appearance upon entrance?
(a) Dirty and tired. (b) Ragged but proud. (c) Clean and uniformed. (d) Battle-worn.
✅ Answer: (c) Clean and uniformed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He is now clean, well brushed, smartly uniformed...”

◼️ 908. Despite the change in appearance, Bluntschli is:
(a) Disguised beyond recognition. (b) Still unmistakably the same man. (c) Completely different. (d) Not recognizable to Catherine.
✅ Answer: (b) Still unmistakably the same man.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...but still unmistakably the same man.”

◼️ 909. What tone does Catherine adopt when first speaking to Bluntschli?
(a) Cold and suspicious. (b) Coaxing and urgent. (c) Condescending. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Coaxing and urgent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with hurried, urgent, coaxing appeal.”

◼️ 910. Who is referred to as Catherine’s “future son-in-law”?
(a) Nicola. (b) Captain Bluntschli. (c) Sergius. (d) A Servian officer.
✅ Answer: (c) Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My husband has just returned, with my future son-in-law...”

◼️ 911. Why does Catherine urge Bluntschli to leave immediately?
(a) He owes money. (b) He might be arrested. (c) Her husband must not find him. (d) He is a criminal.
✅ Answer: (c) Her husband must not find him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...leave this house at once... my husband... they know nothing.”

◼️ 912. What does Catherine claim would happen if the secret were discovered?
(a) He’d be banished. (b) Her daughter’s life would hardly be safe. (c) Raina would elope. (d) Louka would be fired.
✅ Answer: (b) Her daughter’s life would hardly be safe.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...and my daughter’s life would hardly be safe.”

◼️ 913. Catherine describes her husband as a lion:
(a) In love. (b) At rest. (c) Baulked of his prey. (d) Tamed by war.
✅ Answer: (c) Baulked of his prey.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...like a lion baulked of his prey.”

◼️ 914. What emotion does Catherine associate with the peace?
(a) Relief. (b) Indifference. (c) Bitterness. (d) Humiliation.
✅ Answer: (c) Bitterness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...the only effect of the peace on my husband...”

◼️ 915. Catherine appeals to Bluntschli’s:
(a) Sense of humor. (b) National loyalty. (c) Chivalry and honor. (d) Military discipline.
✅ Answer: (c) Chivalry and honor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Will you, like the chivalrous gentleman and soldier you are...”

◼️ 916. The phrase “lion baulked of his prey” is a:

(a) Simile. (b) Metaphor. (c) Personification. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine compares her husband to a lion deprived of a kill.

◼️ 917. Catherine using a salver as a mirror shows:
(a) Class inversion. (b) Improvisation under pressure. (c) Symbol of war. (d) Feminine vanity.
✅ Answer: (b) Improvisation under pressure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...uses it as a mirror.”

◼️ 918. Throwing off apron and handkerchief represents:
(a) Hiding secrets. (b) Social transformation. (c) Rejecting war. (d) Physical relief.
✅ Answer: (b) Social transformation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine discards her domestic look to appear proper.

◼️ 919. “Such a moment to select!” reveals use of:
(a) Understatement. (b) Irony. (c) Sarcasm. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She’s overwhelmed that Bluntschli arrived at the worst time.

◼️ 920. Louka being sent away with many orders shows:
(a) Rising action. (b) Stage direction overload. (c) Symbol of servility and tension. (d) Theme of peace.
✅ Answer: (c) Symbol of servility and tension.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Louka’s constant movement shows the urgency.

◼️ 921. Catherine says “I am very glad to see you,” but her intent is:

(a) Truly glad. (b) Social duty. (c) Cover for panic. (d) Romantic interest.
✅ Answer: (c) Cover for panic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...but you must leave this house at once.”

◼️ 922. Catherine calls Bluntschli a “chivalrous gentleman” to:
(a) Flatter him into obedience. (b) Scold him. (c) Insult him indirectly. (d) Confirm her trust.
✅ Answer: (a) Flatter him into obedience.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...like the chivalrous gentleman and soldier you are...”

◼️ 923. Catherine says the consequences would be terrible, implying:
(a) A scandal only. (b) War would reignite. (c) Family destruction. (d) She’d lose respect.
✅ Answer: (c) Family destruction.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...my daughter’s life would hardly be safe.”

◼️ 924. “You are a foreigner” reflects Catherine’s belief that Bluntschli:
(a) Is ignorant. (b) Can’t understand national pride. (c) Will ignore warnings. (d) Is a spy.
✅ Answer: (b) Can’t understand national pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...you do not feel our national animosities as we do.”

◼️ 925. Catherine’s quick transformation in appearance reflects her:
(a) Need for self-esteem. (b) Control of perception. (c) Obsession with Bluntschli. (d) Concern for fashion.
✅ Answer: (b) Control of perception.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...makes her presentable.”

◼️ 926. How does Bluntschli describe his mood when told to leave at once?

(a) Furious. (b) Offended. (c) Disappointed but philosophical. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (c) Disappointed but philosophical.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(disappointed, but philosophical). At once, gracious lady.”

◼️ 927. Why did Bluntschli say he came to the house?
(a) To speak with Petkoff. (b) To return the coat and thank them. (c) To meet Raina. (d) To collect his things.
✅ Answer: (b) To return the coat and thank them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I only came to thank you and return the coat you lent me.”

◼️ 928. What does Catherine catch to prevent Bluntschli from going inside?
(a) His coat. (b) His hat. (c) His hand. (d) His sleeve.
✅ Answer: (d) His sleeve.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(catching him by the sleeve). Oh, you must not think of going back that way.”

◼️ 929. Which direction does Catherine encourage Bluntschli to take?
(a) Toward the front entrance. (b) Into the house. (c) Through the stable gates. (d) Around the garden.
✅ Answer: (c) Through the stable gates.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Coaxing him across to the stable gates.) This is the shortest way out.”

◼️ 930. How does Catherine bid farewell to Bluntschli before he exits?
(a) “Farewell, Captain.” (b) “Until next time.” (c) “So glad to have been of service to you. Good-bye.” (d) “I hope we meet again.”
✅ Answer: (c) “So glad to have been of service to you. Good-bye.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Many thanks. So glad to have been of service to you. Good-bye.”

◼️ 931. What does Bluntschli request when asked to leave quickly?
(a) His horse. (b) His coat. (c) His bag. (d) His papers.
✅ Answer: (c) His bag.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But my bag?”

◼️ 932. What does Catherine suggest Bluntschli do with his address?
(a) Write it on her hand. (b) Tell Louka. (c) Leave it with Nicola. (d) Write it on a card.
✅ Answer: (d) Write it on a card.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “True. Allow me. (He takes out his card-case...)”

◼️ 933. What is Catherine’s emotional state while Bluntschli writes his address?
(a) Relaxed. (b) Amused. (c) In agony of impatience. (d) Calmly alert.
✅ Answer: (c) In agony of impatience.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...keeping Catherine in an agony of impatience.”

◼️ 934. Who suddenly rushes out of the house?
(a) Nicola and Raina. (b) Louka. (c) Petkoff and Sergius. (d) Major and Minor officers.
✅ Answer: (c) Petkoff and Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Petkoff, hatless, rushes from the house... followed by Sergius.”

◼️ 935. What does Petkoff forget in his excitement?
(a) His hat. (b) His sword. (c) Catherine’s presence. (d) His manners.
✅ Answer: (a) His hat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Petkoff (as he hurries down the steps). My dear Captain Bluntschli—”

◼️ 936. What does Catherine exclaim upon seeing Petkoff?
(a) “Oh dear!” (b) “Mercy!” (c) “Oh Heavens!” (d) “How awkward!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Oh Heavens!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE. Oh Heavens! (She sinks on the seat...)”

◼️ 937. What emotion does Catherine display when Petkoff arrives?
(a) Delight. (b) Weariness. (c) Shock. (d) Pride.
✅ Answer: (c) Shock.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She sinks on the seat against the wall.)”

◼️ 938. Where had Petkoff actually been, according to him?
(a) In the garden. (b) In the cellar. (c) In the library. (d) In the stables.
✅ Answer: (c) In the library.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...thought I was out here, instead of in the—haw!—library.”

◼️ 939. What is Petkoff’s tone when mentioning the library?
(a) Apologetic. (b) Boastful. (c) Regretful. (d) Formal.
✅ Answer: (b) Boastful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(He cannot mention the library without betraying how proud he is of it.)”

◼️ 940. How does Sergius greet Bluntschli?
(a) Coldly. (b) Sarcastically. (c) Humorously and with charm. (d) Formally and briefly.
✅ Answer: (c) Humorously and with charm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “saluting humorously, and then offering his hand with great charm of manner.”

◼️ 941. What phrase does Sergius use to welcome Bluntschli?
(a) “Friend of war!” (b) “Enemy no more!” (c) “Welcome, our friend the enemy!” (d) “Greetings, soldier!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Welcome, our friend the enemy!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Welcome, our friend the enemy!”

◼️ 942. Petkoff corrects Sergius by saying:
(a) “We are allies now.” (b) “No longer the enemy, happily.” (c) “He’s a guest, not a foe.” (d) “Speak respectfully.”
✅ Answer: (b) “No longer the enemy, happily.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No longer the enemy, happily.”

◼️ 943. What concern does Petkoff raise about Bluntschli’s visit?
(a) Whether it’s personal or business. (b) His bag. (c) Catherine’s secrecy. (d) Sergius’ reaction.
✅ Answer: (a) Whether it’s personal or business.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I hope you’ve come as a friend, and not on business.”

◼️ 944. How does Catherine respond to Petkoff’s concern?
(a) Denies knowledge. (b) Says Bluntschli must leave. (c) Affirms it’s purely a friendly visit. (d) Changes the subject.
✅ Answer: (c) Affirms it’s purely a friendly visit.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, quite as a friend, Paul.”

◼️ 945. What military issue does Sergius say they are struggling with?
(a) Setting up tents. (b) Sending regiments to Phillipopolis. (c) Managing horses. (d) Reading maps.
✅ Answer: (b) Sending regiments to Phillipopolis.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We have to send on three cavalry regiments to Phillipopolis...”

◼️ 946. Bluntschli being “disappointed but philosophical” is an example of:

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Litotes. (c) Antithesis. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Antithesis.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Juxtaposes emotion (disappointed) with logic (philosophical).

◼️ 947. Petkoff’s pride in the library is a symbol of:
(a) Military discipline. (b) Domestic simplicity. (c) Cultural aspiration. (d) Aristocratic decay.
✅ Answer: (c) Cultural aspiration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He cannot mention the library without pride.

◼️ 948. Catherine sinking onto a seat symbolizes her:
(a) Weakness. (b) Collapse under tension. (c) Need for approval. (d) Joy.
✅ Answer: (b) Collapse under tension.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(She sinks on the seat...)” shows emotional overload.

◼️ 949. “Welcome, our friend the enemy!” is an example of:
(a) Paradox. (b) Irony. (c) Euphemism. (d) Allusion.
✅ Answer: (a) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Friend” and “enemy” contradict.

◼️ 950. “In an agony of impatience” uses which device?
(a) Irony. (b) Alliteration. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Synecdoche.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exaggerates Catherine’s anxious waiting.

◼️ 951. Catherine says “so glad to have been of service,” but she really wants:

(a) To keep Bluntschli there. (b) Him gone fast. (c) To return his coat. (d) An apology.
✅ Answer: (b) Him gone fast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her tone and behavior suggest urgency.

◼️ 952. Bluntschli offering to “detain no further” implies he is:
(a) Pretending politeness. (b) Genuinely considerate. (c) Testing Catherine. (d) Being sarcastic.
✅ Answer: (b) Genuinely considerate.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I need detain you no further.”

◼️ 953. Petkoff’s question about “business” shows his fear of:
(a) Politics. (b) Duty interrupting leisure. (c) Disloyalty. (d) Catherine’s plans.
✅ Answer: (b) Duty interrupting leisure.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...not on business.”

◼️ 954. Sergius’ tone when saying “Impossible, Bluntschli” suggests:
(a) Threat. (b) Invitation. (c) Sarcasm hiding desperation. (d) Military command.
✅ Answer: (c) Sarcasm hiding desperation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “sardonically... We want you here badly.”

◼️ 955. “The forage is the trouble, eh?” shows Bluntschli’s:
(a) Ignorance. (b) Mockery. (c) Tactical instinct. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (c) Tactical instinct.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He immediately identifies the logistical issue.

◼️ 956. What is Petkoff’s immediate reaction to Bluntschli’s tactical insight?

(a) Indifference. (b) Eagerness. (c) Doubt. (d) Irritation.
✅ Answer: (b) Eagerness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “PETKOFF (eagerly). Yes, that’s it.”

◼️ 957. What compliment does Sergius give Bluntschli?
(a) “Tactful fellow!” (b) “A genius!” (c) “Invaluable man!” (d) “A true soldier!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Invaluable man!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SERGIUS. Invaluable man!”

◼️ 958. How does Sergius physically interact with Bluntschli as they prepare to enter?
(a) Hugs him. (b) Pats his back. (c) Shakes his hand. (d) Places his hand on his shoulder.
✅ Answer: (d) Places his hand on his shoulder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...puts his hand on his shoulder...”

◼️ 959. When does Raina appear in this scene?
(a) Before they begin discussing tactics. (b) Just as Bluntschli steps onto the stairs. (c) While Petkoff is speaking. (d) After Sergius enters the house.
✅ Answer: (b) Just as Bluntschli steps onto the stairs.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “As Bluntschli puts his foot on the first step, Raina comes out...”

◼️ 960. What phrase does Raina exclaim upon seeing Bluntschli?
(a) “My dear soldier!” (b) “Captain, you’re back!” (c) “Oh, the chocolate cream soldier!” (d) “How unexpected!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Oh, the chocolate cream soldier!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. Oh, the chocolate cream soldier!”

◼️ 961. What is Bluntschli’s immediate reaction to Raina’s outburst?
(a) He blushes. (b) He smiles politely. (c) He stands rigid. (d) He runs off.
✅ Answer: (c) He stands rigid.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bluntschli stands rigid.”

◼️ 962. How do Sergius and Petkoff react to Raina’s exclamation?
(a) They laugh. (b) They exchange confused looks. (c) They ignore it. (d) They ask her to explain.
✅ Answer: (b) They exchange confused looks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius, amazed, looks at Raina, then at Petkoff...”

◼️ 963. Who comes to Raina’s rescue with presence of mind?
(a) Louka. (b) Catherine. (c) Sergius. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (b) Catherine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE (with commanding presence of mind)...”

◼️ 964. What explanation does Catherine give for Raina’s words?
(a) It was a joke. (b) She was confused. (c) They have a Servian guest. (d) It was a nickname.
✅ Answer: (c) They have a Servian guest.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Captain Bluntschli, one of our new Servian friends?”

◼️ 965. How does Raina respond after realizing her slip?
(a) Apologizes and exits. (b) Starts laughing. (c) Pretends it was about food. (d) Ignores the moment.
✅ Answer: (c) Pretends it was about food.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I made a beautiful ornament this morning for the ice pudding...”

◼️ 966. What does Raina claim ruined her pudding decoration?
(a) The heat. (b) The cat. (c) Nicola. (d) Louka.
✅ Answer: (c) Nicola.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That stupid Nicola has just put down a pile of plates on it...”

◼️ 967. What tone does Raina use when addressing Bluntschli about the mix-up?
(a) Sarcastic. (b) Formal. (c) Winningly. (d) Frustrated.
✅ Answer: (c) Winningly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(To Bluntschli, winningly.) I hope you didn’t think...”

◼️ 968. How does Bluntschli respond to Raina’s explanation?
(a) Offended. (b) Relieved and amused. (c) Confused. (d) Shocked.
✅ Answer: (b) Relieved and amused.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I assure you I did... Your explanation was a relief.”

◼️ 969. What tone does Petkoff adopt when questioning Raina’s cooking interest?
(a) Encouraging. (b) Indifferent. (c) Suspicious. (d) Enthusiastic.
✅ Answer: (c) Suspicious.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And since when, pray, have you taken to cooking?”

◼️ 970. How does Catherine explain Raina’s culinary activity?
(a) As a long-standing hobby. (b) As her latest fancy. (c) As a war-time necessity. (d) As Sergius’s suggestion.
✅ Answer: (b) As her latest fancy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It is her latest fancy.”

◼️ 971. What accusation does Petkoff make against Nicola?
(a) Lying. (b) Laziness. (c) Drinking. (d) Spying.
✅ Answer: (c) Drinking.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “And has Nicola taken to drinking?”

◼️ 972. What mistake does Petkoff say Nicola made about Bluntschli earlier?
(a) Sent him to the wrong room. (b) Broke his bag. (c) Sent him out instead of into the library. (d) Gave him the wrong coat.
✅ Answer: (c) Sent him out instead of into the library.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...shews Captain Bluntschli out here when he knew... I was in the—hum!—library.”

◼️ 973. What second error does Petkoff accuse Nicola of?
(a) Dropping the ice cream. (b) Losing a letter. (c) Breaking Raina’s chocolate soldier. (d) Spilling wine.
✅ Answer: (c) Breaking Raina’s chocolate soldier.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...and then he goes downstairs and breaks Raina’s chocolate soldier.”

◼️ 974. How does Nicola enter during the accusations?
(a) Running nervously. (b) Dragging luggage. (c) Calmly with a carpet bag. (d) Bowing with letters.
✅ Answer: (c) Calmly with a carpet bag.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nicola appears at the top... with a carpet bag.”

◼️ 975. What is Petkoff’s reaction upon seeing Nicola with the bag?
(a) Shocked silence. (b) Confused amusement. (c) Furious shouting. (d) Calm inquiry.
✅ Answer: (c) Furious shouting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Are you mad, Nicola?”

◼️ 976. Raina’s exclamation “chocolate cream soldier” is an example of:

(a) Symbolism. (b) Irony. (c) Sarcasm. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (a) Symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase symbolizes Bluntschli’s gentler, unconventional nature.

◼️ 977. The “ice pudding ornament” functions as a symbol for:
(a) Artistic rebellion. (b) Social status. (c) Covering emotional outbursts. (d) Class boundaries.
✅ Answer: (c) Covering emotional outbursts.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Raina uses it to conceal her slip.

◼️ 978. Catherine’s “commanding presence of mind” is an instance of:
(a) Metaphor. (b) Personification. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her calm authority is compared figuratively.

◼️ 979. “Bluntschli stands rigid” uses which device?
(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metonymy. (d) Visual imagery.
✅ Answer: (d) Visual imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes his shock through body language.

◼️ 980. “Are you mad, Nicola?” is an example of:
(a) Euphemism. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Rhetorical question. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (c) Rhetorical question.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff does not expect an actual answer.

◼️ 981. Raina saying “How silly of me!” is really a way to:

(a) Apologize genuinely. (b) Distract from the truth. (c) Compliment Bluntschli. (d) Admit guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Distract from the truth.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She uses it to cover her slip.

◼️ 982. Bluntschli’s “Your explanation was a relief” implies:
(a) He doubted her. (b) He accepted the lie to avoid trouble. (c) He was truly fooled. (d) He didn’t understand.
✅ Answer: (b) He accepted the lie to avoid trouble.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Stealing a whimsical glance at her.”

◼️ 983. Catherine claiming Raina’s cooking is “her latest fancy” is meant to:
(a) Undermine Raina. (b) Show Raina’s skills. (c) Justify her behavior. (d) Distract Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (d) Distract Petkoff.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: A cover-up for the chocolate soldier comment.

◼️ 984. Petkoff’s reference to the “hum!—library” shows:
(a) Shame. (b) Suspicion. (c) Concealed pride. (d) Jealousy.
✅ Answer: (c) Concealed pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He can’t mention the library without showing pride.

◼️ 985. Nicola saying “my lady’s orders” indicates:
(a) Blind obedience. (b) Cover-up for Louka. (c) Truthful disclosure. (d) Arrogance.
✅ Answer: (b) Cover-up for Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Nicola follows Louka’s message, not direct orders.

◼️ 986. How does Catherine react when Nicola says he followed her orders?
(a) She laughs. (b) She confirms it. (c) She interrupts him in disbelief. (d) She ignores him.
✅ Answer: (c) She interrupts him in disbelief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE. (interrupting him). My orders!”

◼️ 987. How does Nicola respond after Catherine denies the order?
(a) Defiantly. (b) Humbly and discreetly. (c) Sarcastically. (d) Angrily.
✅ Answer: (b) Humbly and discreetly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “with the very perfection of servile discretion”

◼️ 988. What does Nicola do with the bag while addressing Bluntschli?
(a) Throws it. (b) Holds it high. (c) Picks it up respectfully. (d) Kicks it away.
✅ Answer: (c) Picks it up respectfully.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “picking up the bag as he addresses Bluntschli...”

◼️ 989. What does Petkoff sarcastically suggest Nicola should do with the bag?
(a) Put it in the library. (b) Drop it on the pudding. (c) Give it to Louka. (d) Burn it.
✅ Answer: (b) Drop it on the pudding.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “slam that bag, too, down on Miss Raina’s ice pudding!”

◼️ 990. Where does Nicola accidentally drop the bag?
(a) On a table. (b) On the floor. (c) On Petkoff’s foot. (d) In Raina’s arms.
✅ Answer: (c) On Petkoff’s foot.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The bag drops from his hands on Petkoff’s corns...”

◼️ 991. What is Petkoff’s immediate physical reaction to Nicola dropping the bag?
(a) He screams. (b) He limps. (c) He roars in anguish. (d) He laughs.
✅ Answer: (c) He roars in anguish.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “eliciting a roar of anguish from him.”

◼️ 992. What insult does Petkoff throw at Nicola after the incident?
(a) Clumsy brute. (b) Butter-fingered donkey. (c) Stupid servant. (d) Hopeless fool.
✅ Answer: (b) Butter-fingered donkey.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Begone, you butter-fingered donkey.”

◼️ 993. What is Nicola’s response after being insulted by Petkoff?
(a) He argues. (b) He laughs nervously. (c) He apologizes and leaves. (d) He glares at him.
✅ Answer: (c) He apologizes and leaves.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “snatching up the bag, and escaping into the house”

◼️ 994. How does Catherine try to calm Petkoff after the incident?
(a) By scolding Nicola herself. (b) By telling him to punish Nicola later. (c) By saying “don’t be angry.” (d) By distracting him.
✅ Answer: (c) By saying “don’t be angry.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “CATHERINE. Oh, never mind, Paul, don’t be angry!”

◼️ 995. What does Petkoff call Nicola after he exits?
(a) A traitor. (b) A devil. (c) A scoundrel. (d) A fool.
✅ Answer: (c) A scoundrel.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “PETKOFF. (muttering). Scoundrel.”

◼️ 996. What does Petkoff blame for Nicola’s behaviour?
(a) Bad influence from Louka. (b) Catherine’s indulgence. (c) His absence. (d) The war.
✅ Answer: (c) His absence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He’s got out of hand while I was away.”

◼️ 997. What does Petkoff plan to do about Nicola’s behavior?
(a) Fire him. (b) Punish him. (c) Teach him. (d) Ignore him.
✅ Answer: (c) Teach him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll teach him.”

◼️ 998. What invitation does Petkoff extend to Bluntschli?
(a) To go to the library. (b) To join their family. (c) To stay with them until he returns to Switzerland. (d) To dine with them.
✅ Answer: (c) To stay with them until he returns to Switzerland.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Until you do go back you’ll stay with us.”

◼️ 999. Who enthusiastically supports Petkoff’s offer to Bluntschli?
(a) Catherine. (b) Sergius. (c) Louka. (d) Raina.
✅ Answer: (d) Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “RAINA. Oh, do, Captain Bluntschli.”

◼️ 1000. According to Petkoff, who does Bluntschli fear the most?
(a) Sergius. (b) Raina. (c) Nicola. (d) Catherine.
✅ Answer: (d) Catherine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Now, Catherine, it’s of you that he’s afraid.”

◼️ 1001. What does Catherine say Bluntschli knows?
(a) Their generosity. (b) Her cooking. (c) Her wishes. (d) Her past.
✅ Answer: (c) Her wishes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He knows my wishes.”

◼️ 1002. How does Bluntschli respond to Catherine’s appeal?
(a) With affection. (b) With irony. (c) In dry military tone. (d) In poetic verse.
✅ Answer: (c) In dry military tone.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “BLUNTSCHLI. (in his driest military manner)”

◼️ 1003. What phrase does Bluntschli use to affirm Catherine’s authority?
(a) “I defer to madam.” (b) “I am under command.” (c) “As you wish.” (d) “I am at madame’s orders.”
✅ Answer: (d) “I am at madame’s orders.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am at madame’s orders.”

◼️ 1004. How does Sergius react to Bluntschli’s decision to stay?
(a) Jealously. (b) Coldly. (c) Cordially. (d) Indifferently.
✅ Answer: (c) Cordially.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “SERGIUS. (cordially). That settles it!”

◼️ 1005. What is Catherine’s final visible reaction to Bluntschli staying?
(a) A smile. (b) A sigh of joy. (c) A gesture of despair. (d) A clap.
✅ Answer: (c) A gesture of despair.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Gesture of despair from Catherine.)”

◼️ 1006. “Butter-fingered donkey” is an example of:

(a) Allusion. (b) Symbolism. (c) Metaphor and insult. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor and insult.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It mocks Nicola’s clumsiness vividly.

◼️ 1007. The bag dropping on Petkoff’s corns symbolically suggests:
(a) Servant’s rebellion. (b) Unintended pain caused by mishandled orders. (c) Power reversal. (d) Nicola’s resistance.
✅ Answer: (b) Unintended pain caused by mishandled orders.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It’s a farcical twist to confused authority.

◼️ 1008. “In his driest military manner” is an example of:
(a) Irony. (b) Metonymy. (c) Visual imagery. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Dry tone contrasts emotional moment.

◼️ 1009. “Gesture of despair” is best interpreted as:
(a) Symbol of anxiety. (b) Metaphor for defeat. (c) Comic theatricality. (d) Literal meaning only.
✅ Answer: (c) Comic theatricality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It mocks her loss of control.

◼️ 1010. The phrase “Come, Bluntschli, let’s have no more nonsense...” contains:
(a) Irony. (b) Sarcasm. (c) Idiomatic phrasing. (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (c) Idiomatic phrasing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Common expression for dismissing objections.

◼️ 1011. Nicola saying “I hope you’ll overlook it!” reflects:

(a) Genuine error. (b) Hidden resentment. (c) Survival instinct and diplomacy. (d) Indifference.
✅ Answer: (c) Survival instinct and diplomacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He bows and avoids conflict.

◼️ 1012. Petkoff’s repeated complaints mask his:
(a) True weakness. (b) Need to reassert authority. (c) Desire to fire Nicola. (d) Love for Catherine.
✅ Answer: (b) Need to reassert authority.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ll teach him.”

◼️ 1013. Bluntschli saying “I am at madame’s orders” actually suggests:
(a) Strict discipline. (b) Passive resistance. (c) Polite submission with irony. (d) Absolute joy.
✅ Answer: (c) Polite submission with irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Dry military manner signals irony.

◼️ 1014. Catherine’s gesture of despair implies:
(a) She regrets her schemes. (b) She is tired. (c) She feels trapped by the situation. (d) She wants to cry.
✅ Answer: (c) She feels trapped by the situation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She’s lost control of the narrative.

◼️ 1015. Raina’s phrase “You see, you must stay!” reveals:
(a) Command. (b) Joy in power. (c) Emotional urgency. (d) False modesty.
✅ Answer: (c) Emotional urgency.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She pleads with genuine feeling.

◼️ 1016. What element of the room's furnishing is considered "hopelessly out of keeping" with the rest?

(a) The ottoman. (b) The hookah. (c) The small kitchen table. (d) The Turkish tables.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) The small kitchen table.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "There is one object, however, which is hopelessly out of keeping with its surroundings. This is a small kitchen table..."

◼️ 1017. What does the presence of war and chase trophies on the walls suggest about the household?
(a) It is scholarly. (b) It is military and proud of it. (c) It is impoverished. (d) It is aristocratic.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) It is military and proud of it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...the rest of the wall space being occupied by trophies of war and the chase."

◼️ 1018. What is Sergius’s expression while watching Bluntschli work?
(a) Cold resentment. (b) Pure admiration. (c) Envious irritation and wonder. (d) Hostile suspicion.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Envious irritation and wonder.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...contemplating Bluntschli’s quick, sure, businesslike progress with a mixture of envious irritation... and awestruck wonder..."

◼️ 1019. Where is Catherine positioned in this scene?
(a) At the window. (b) On the ottoman. (c) At the stove. (d) At the table.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) At the stove.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Catherine sits at the stove, with her back to them, embroidering."

◼️ 1020. What is Petkoff's activity during this library scene?
(a) Writing orders. (b) Reading a novel. (c) Reading a newspaper. (d) Embroidering.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Reading a newspaper.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The major is comfortably established on the ottoman, with a newspaper in his hand..."

◼️ 1021. What comment does Sergius make about their division of labour?
(a) It is unfair. (b) It is efficient. (c) It is unequal. (d) It is necessary.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) It is efficient.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Division of labour, Major."

◼️ 1022. What object does Petkoff refer to when expressing discomfort in his clothing?
(a) His slippers. (b) His hat. (c) His old coat. (d) His trousers.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) His old coat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "There’s only one thing I want to make me thoroughly comfortable... My old coat."

◼️ 1023. Who does Bluntschli say will manage the work?
(a) Catherine and Petkoff. (b) Petkoff and Raina. (c) Sergius and himself. (d) Only himself.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Sergius and himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Saranoff and I will manage it."

◼️ 1024. What indicates Petkoff's relaxed domestic mood?
(a) Reading military maps. (b) Sitting by the stove. (c) Hookah within his reach. (d) Taking notes.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Hookah within his reach.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...with a newspaper in his hand and the tube of the hookah within his reach."

◼️ 1025. What does Petkoff think Catherine is trying to do when she presses the bell?
(a) Summon Nicola. (b) Interrupt him. (c) Show off. (d) Avoid answering.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Show off.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What are you shewing off that bell for?"

◼️ 1026. What is Catherine doing while others work or lounge?

(a) Cleaning the room. (b) Embroidering. (c) Peeling vegetables. (d) Reading a novel.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Embroidering.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Catherine sits at the stove, with her back to them, embroidering."

◼️ 1027. Where is Raina seated during this library scene?
(a) On the ottoman. (b) At the writing table. (c) On a divan near the left window. (d) On the floor.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) On a divan near the left window.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Raina, reclining on the divan under the left hand window..."

◼️ 1028. What indicates that the library is not truly literary?
(a) Books are hidden. (b) Only military documents are found. (c) Novels are damaged and scarce. (d) There are no chairs.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Novels are damaged and scarce.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Old paper-covered novels, broken backed, coffee stained, torn and thumbed..."

◼️ 1029. What does Sergius say about his hand?
(a) It is injured. (b) It is more used to writing. (c) It is more used to swordplay. (d) It is clumsy.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) It is more used to swordplay.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "This hand is more accustomed to the sword than to the pen."

◼️ 1030. How does Sergius sign the papers Bluntschli gives him?
(a) Hastily. (b) Proudly. (c) With reluctance. (d) As if it were a dangerous feat.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) As if it were a dangerous feat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...signs with the air of a man resolutely performing a difficult and dangerous feat."

◼️ 1031. How does Petkoff describe the joy of relaxing after lunch?
(a) Tiresome. (b) Utterly boring. (c) Unnatural. (d) Pleasant.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) Pleasant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You don’t know how pleasant it is for us to sit here, after a good lunch..."

◼️ 1032. Where does Petkoff believe his coat should be?
(a) On the ottoman. (b) In the library. (c) In the blue closet. (d) With Nicola.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) In the blue closet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "It must be hanging in the blue closet where you left it."

◼️ 1033. What does Catherine do when Petkoff insists the coat is not there?
(a) Yells at Nicola. (b) Looks herself. (c) Presses the electric bell. (d) Leaves the room.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Presses the electric bell.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Catherine quietly rises and presses the button of the electric bell by the fireplace."

◼️ 1034. What tone does Catherine use when warning Petkoff to stop interrupting?
(a) Loud. (b) Soft but firm. (c) Playful. (d) Angry.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Soft but firm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Catherine. (in a low, warning tone)."

◼️ 1035. What literary purpose does the hookah and Turkish tables serve in the setting?
(a) Indicate poverty. (b) Symbolize sophistication. (c) Reflect exoticism and comfort. (d) Represent war spoils.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Reflect exoticism and comfort.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...Turkish tables... complete the handsome effect of the furnishing."

◼️ 1036. The "small kitchen table" in the refined room acts as a symbol of—

(a) Domesticity amidst grandeur. (b) Military discipline. (c) Artistic chaos. (d) Inherited poverty.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) Domesticity amidst grandeur.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "There is one object, however, which is hopelessly out of keeping... a small kitchen table..."

◼️ 1037. The act of pressing the electric bell serves as a symbol of—
(a) Military efficiency. (b) Power and command. (c) Domestic fragility. (d) Technological burden.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Power and command.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Catherine quietly rises and presses the button of the electric bell..."

◼️ 1038. The phrase "a man resolutely performing a difficult and dangerous feat" is an example of—
(a) Alliteration. (b) Personification. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Euphemism.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...signs with the air of a man resolutely performing a difficult and dangerous feat."

◼️ 1039. The old, tattered novels metaphorically reflect—
(a) The chaos of the war. (b) Intellectual decay beneath aristocratic pride. (c) Bluntschli's lost youth. (d) Petkoff’s false prestige.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Intellectual decay beneath aristocratic pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Old paper-covered novels, broken backed, coffee stained, torn and thumbed..."

◼️ 1040. The room filled with "trophies of war and the chase" best symbolizes—
(a) The family’s hunting hobbies. (b) Nationalism. (c) A romanticized view of violence and power. (d) Their ancestral history.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) A romanticized view of violence and power.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...rest of the wall space being occupied by trophies of war and the chase."

◼️ 1041. What is the inner meaning of Sergius "gnawing the feather of a pen"?

(a) He is thinking deeply. (b) He is copying Bluntschli. (c) He is frustrated by his incompetence. (d) He is about to speak.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) He is frustrated by his incompetence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...gnawing the feather of a pen, and contemplating Bluntschli’s... ability..."

◼️ 1042. Petkoff’s use of “shewing off that bell” conveys—
(a) Admiration. (b) Bitterness. (c) Irony and defiance. (d) Affection.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Irony and defiance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What are you shewing off that bell for?"

◼️ 1043. The tone of Catherine saying, “My dear Paul, how absurd you are…” is—
(a) Flirtatious. (b) Playfully reproachful. (c) Disinterested. (d) Deeply sarcastic.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Playfully reproachful.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My dear Paul, how absurd you are about that old coat!"

◼️ 1044. Petkoff’s statement about “two old dressing gowns… and my mackintosh” implies—
(a) He's confused. (b) He exaggerates to mock. (c) He’s mentally disoriented. (d) He is asking for fashion help.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) He exaggerates to mock.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...you think... can make a coat out of two old dressing gowns... your waterproof, and my mackintosh..."

◼️ 1045. Bluntschli's "dryest military manner" implies—
(a) Disrespect. (b) Stoic professionalism. (c) Comic detachment. (d) Indifference.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Stoic professionalism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Bluntschli (in his driest military manner)."

◼️ 1046. What does Petkoff offer as a bet against Catherine's confidence?

(a) A week’s military allowance. (b) A trip to Sofia. (c) Housekeeping money. (d) A bottle of wine.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Housekeeping money.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I bet you any piece of jewellery you like to order from Sofia against a week’s housekeeping money..."

◼️ 1047. How does Catherine respond to Petkoff’s bet?
(a) She refuses. (b) She ignores it. (c) She accepts. (d) She mocks him.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) She accepts.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "CATHERINE. Done, Paul."

◼️ 1048. What is Sergius's bet?
(a) His salary. (b) His best charger. (c) His house. (d) A diamond brooch.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) His best charger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Major: I bet my best charger against an Arab mare for Raina..."

◼️ 1049. What does Catherine say about the Arabian mare?
(a) It is rare. (b) It costs too much. (c) It is not worth it. (d) It is unsuitable for Raina.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) It costs too much.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "An Arabian mare will cost you 50,000 levas."

◼️ 1050. How does Raina respond to the discussion of the Arab mare?
(a) She remains silent. (b) She gets angry. (c) She supports her mother. (d) She insists on fairness.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) She insists on fairness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "if you are going to take the jewellery, I don’t see why you should grudge me my Arab."

◼️ 1051. What does Nicola bring back?
(a) A newspaper. (b) An order book. (c) A coat. (d) A pen.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) A coat.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Nicola comes back with the coat and brings it to Petkoff..."

◼️ 1052. Where does Nicola say the coat was found?
(a) On a chair. (b) In the blue closet. (c) In the garden. (d) Under a cushion.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) In the blue closet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Hanging in the blue closet, madam."

◼️ 1053. What is Petkoff's reaction to Nicola’s return with the coat?
(a) Calm. (b) Confused and stunned. (c) Amused. (d) Angry.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Confused and stunned.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "PETKOFF. Well, I am d—"

◼️ 1054. What does Petkoff blame for his confusion?
(a) Tiredness. (b) Catherine’s trick. (c) Hallucinations due to age. (d) Poor memory.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Hallucinations due to age.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Age is beginning to tell on me. I’m getting hallucinations."

◼️ 1055. What is Bluntschli doing as Sergius signs the papers?
(a) Reading. (b) Smiling. (c) Watching closely. (d) Handing another paper.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) Handing another paper.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "BLUNTSCHLI. (to Sergius, handing a paper). That’s the last order."

◼️ 1056. What does Petkoff ask when told the paperwork is finished?
(a) For coffee. (b) For more to sign. (c) For Bluntschli to leave. (d) For Catherine.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) For more to sign.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Haven’t you anything for me to sign?"

◼️ 1057. Why doesn't Petkoff need to sign?
(a) His writing is unreadable. (b) The war is over. (c) Sergius’s signature suffices. (d) He is not in command.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Sergius’s signature suffices.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "BLUNTSCHLI. Not necessary. His signature will do."

◼️ 1058. What does Petkoff say about the day’s work?
(a) It was tiring. (b) It was a disaster. (c) It was satisfactory. (d) It was a good day’s work.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) It was a good day’s work.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I think we’ve done a thundering good day’s work."

◼️ 1059. What kind of threats does Bluntschli suggest for the men transporting the orders?
(a) Verbal abuse. (b) Late fines. (c) Severe physical punishment. (d) Dismissal.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Severe physical punishment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...if they’re five minutes late, they’ll have the skin taken off their backs."

◼️ 1060. How does Sergius react to Bluntschli's suggested discipline?
(a) He agrees. (b) He laughs. (c) He is outraged. (d) He remains silent.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) He is outraged.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I’ll buy his discharge and give him a pension."

◼️ 1061. How does Petkoff describe Catherine’s ability with the men?
(a) As frightening. (b) As commanding. (c) As gentle. (d) As useless.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) As frightening.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "They’ll be far more frightened of you than of me."

◼️ 1062. What does Catherine say Petkoff will do to the men?
(a) Annoy them. (b) Beat them. (c) Shout at them. (d) Splutter at them.
✅ Correct Answer: (d) Splutter at them.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You will only splutter at them."

◼️ 1063. What does Bluntschli say cannons are made from in this country?
(a) Metal. (b) Bronze. (c) Cherry trees. (d) Oak trees.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Cherry trees.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "They make cannons out of cherry trees..."

◼️ 1064. What change in appearance does Raina notice in Bluntschli?
(a) He is paler. (b) He is older. (c) He looks nicer. (d) He is thinner.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) He looks nicer.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You look ever so much nicer than when we last met."

◼️ 1065. What reason does Bluntschli give for his improved appearance?
(a) New clothes. (b) Exercise. (c) Sleep and breakfast. (d) A haircut.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Sleep and breakfast.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Washed; brushed; good night’s sleep and breakfast. That’s all."

◼️ 1066. The coat symbolizes—

(a) Petkoff’s fading authority. (b) Catherine’s control. (c) Family wealth. (d) War’s burden.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) Petkoff’s fading authority.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff doubts its location and feels aged—“I’m getting hallucinations.”

◼️ 1067. The phrase “You will only splutter at them” uses—
(a) Simile. (b) Alliteration. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Splutter” metaphorically represents ineffective scolding.

◼️ 1068. Sergius's statement about pensioning a man who spits in his face is—
(a) Satirical. (b) Hyperbolic. (c) Ironic. (d) Metaphoric.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Hyperbolic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I’ll buy his discharge and give him a pension."

◼️ 1069. “Cannons out of cherry trees” is an example of—
(a) Satire. (b) Symbolism. (c) Oxymoron. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) Satire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "They make cannons out of cherry trees..."

◼️ 1070. Raina's “picturesque reverie” represents—
(a) Her poetic nature. (b) Detachment from reality. (c) Military understanding. (d) Anger.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Detachment from reality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Raina... again rapt in the landscape."

◼️ 1071. “Well, I am d—” indicates—

(a) Disbelief. (b) Excitement. (c) Fear. (d) Insult.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) Disbelief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff’s incomplete exclamation upon seeing the coat.

◼️ 1072. “She’s dreaming, as usual.” implies Raina is—
(a) Not paying attention. (b) Romantic and detached. (c) Sick. (d) Angry.
✅ Correct Answer: (b) Romantic and detached.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "With a little gush of paternal affection... She’s dreaming, as usual."

◼️ 1073. Bluntschli's dry delivery reveals his—
(a) Arrogance. (b) Indifference. (c) Professionalism and calm. (d) Insecurity.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Professionalism and calm.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "BLUNTSCHLI. (imperturbably)"

◼️ 1074. Petkoff’s childlike envy when asking to sign papers implies—
(a) Need for control. (b) Pride in authority. (c) Jealousy over efficiency. (d) Boredom.
✅ Correct Answer: (c) Jealousy over efficiency.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...says with childlike envy..."

◼️ 1075. Raina asking “Were they angry...?” reveals—
(a) Concern. (b) Accusation. (c) Suspicion. (d) Guilt.
✅ Correct Answer: (a) Concern.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Were they angry with you for running away...?"

◼️ 1076. Who did Bluntschli initially claim he told the story to?

(a) A general. (b) Sergius. (c) A particular friend. (d) A maid.
✅ Answer: (c) A particular friend.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "But I only told it to one of them—a particular friend."

◼️ 1077. How does Raina confirm that her secret is compromised?
(a) Louka overheard it. (b) Sergius guessed it. (c) Catherine admitted it. (d) Her father and Sergius were told.
✅ Answer: (d) Her father and Sergius were told.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "He told it all to my father and Sergius the day you exchanged the prisoners."

◼️ 1078. What does Raina fear Sergius would do if he knew the truth?
(a) Abandon her. (b) Publicly insult her. (c) Duel Bluntschli. (d) Marry someone else.
✅ Answer: (c) Duel Bluntschli.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If Sergius knew, he would challenge you and kill you in a duel."

◼️ 1079. What does Raina claim is the only noble part of her life?
(a) Saving a life. (b) Her idealism. (c) Her love for poetry. (d) Her relationship with Sergius.
✅ Answer: (d) Her relationship with Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My relation to him is the one really beautiful and noble part of my life."

◼️ 1080. How does Bluntschli describe people telling lies to a soldier?
(a) A disgrace. (b) A rare event. (c) An everyday occurrence. (d) A foolish act.
✅ Answer: (c) An everyday occurrence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "One is hearing people tell lies..."

◼️ 1081. What is the second thing soldiers get used to, according to Bluntschli?
(a) Killing people. (b) Lying. (c) Being wounded. (d) Having their life saved.
✅ Answer: (d) Having their life saved.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...the other is getting his life saved in all sorts of ways by all sorts of people."

◼️ 1082. How does Raina react when Bluntschli says he doesn’t like gratitude?
(a) She laughs. (b) She agrees. (c) She is shocked. (d) She remains silent.
✅ Answer: (c) She is shocked.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Gratitude! If you are incapable of gratitude you are incapable of any noble sentiment."

◼️ 1083. What does Raina equate the lack of gratitude with?
(a) Weakness. (b) Inhumanity. (c) Deceit. (d) Lack of nobility.
✅ Answer: (d) Lack of nobility.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If you are incapable of gratitude you are incapable of any noble sentiment."

◼️ 1084. What expression does Raina use to emphasize her indignation at being misunderstood?
(a) You insolent man! (b) How dare you! (c) Captain Bluntschli! (d) That’s an insult!
✅ Answer: (c) Captain Bluntschli!
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "RAINA. (superbly). Captain Bluntschli!"

◼️ 1085. What did Raina do the first time she lied?
(a) Lied about loving Sergius. (b) Lied to the searching officer. (c) Lied to her mother. (d) Lied about the chocolate.
✅ Answer: (b) Lied to the searching officer.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Yes; and I told the officer who was searching for you that you were not present."

◼️ 1086. What does Bluntschli suggest about her second lie?
(a) It was unnecessary. (b) It was brave. (c) It saved his life. (d) It humiliated her.
✅ Answer: (c) It saved his life.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I lied: I know it. But I did it to save your life."

◼️ 1087. What is the tone in Raina’s expression “a lie!—a lie!!”?
(a) Playful. (b) Sarcastic. (c) Remorseful. (d) Agonized.
✅ Answer: (d) Agonized.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...it cost me a lie!—a lie!!"

◼️ 1088. What emotion does Raina express when Bluntschli says lies are common for a soldier?
(a) Admiration. (b) Indignation. (c) Relief. (d) Pity.
✅ Answer: (b) Indignation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "RAINA. (rising in indignant protest)."

◼️ 1089. What does Bluntschli call Raina’s noble speech style?
(a) Noble gesture. (b) Melodrama. (c) Thrilling voice. (d) Perfect deception.
✅ Answer: (c) Thrilling voice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "When you get into that noble attitude and speak in that thrilling voice..."

◼️ 1090. How does Bluntschli respond to Raina’s question “Do you know what you said just now?”
(a) He retracts it. (b) He denies it. (c) He repeats it. (d) He admits it.
✅ Answer: (d) He admits it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "BLUNTSCHLI. I do."

◼️ 1091. What does Raina’s “I! I!!!” express?
(a) Guilt. (b) Disbelief. (c) Irony. (d) Regret.
✅ Answer: (b) Disbelief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "RAINA. (gasping). I! I!!!"

◼️ 1092. What is Raina's final reaction to Bluntschli’s honesty about not taking her seriously?
(a) Shock. (b) Admiration. (c) Anger. (d) Silence.
✅ Answer: (b) Admiration.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You are the first man I ever met who did not take me seriously."

◼️ 1093. What method does Bluntschli claim helped him detect her lies?
(a) Instinct and experience. (b) Her tone. (c) Investigation. (d) Catherine’s hints.
✅ Answer: (a) Instinct and experience.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Instinct, dear young lady. Instinct, and experience of the world."

◼️ 1094. How does Raina behave after her accusation of being insulted?
(a) She cries. (b) She walks away. (c) She changes tone and sits beside him. (d) She threatens to tell Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) She changes tone and sits beside him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...adds, with a complete change of manner from the heroic to the familiar..."

◼️ 1095. Which theme is most emphasized in Raina and Bluntschli’s exchange?
(a) Duty vs. desire. (b) Class conflict. (c) Appearance vs. reality. (d) Romantic escapism.
✅ Answer: (c) Appearance vs. reality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The contrast between Raina’s romantic persona and her actual behavior reveals the theme.

◼️ 1096. Why is Raina surprised by Bluntschli's manner of speaking to her?
(a) He speaks rudely to her. (b) He flatters her constantly. (c) He speaks without emotion. (d) He doesn’t take her “noble attitude” seriously.
✅ Answer: (d) He doesn’t take her “noble attitude” seriously.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do you know, you are the first man I ever met who did not take me seriously?”

◼️ 1097. What habit does Raina admit she has maintained since childhood?
(a) Lying for fun. (b) Speaking dramatically. (c) Giving gifts to soldiers. (d) Mocking her family.
✅ Answer: (b) Speaking dramatically.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’ve always gone on like that—I mean the noble attitude and the thrilling voice.”

◼️ 1098. How does Bluntschli describe his admiration for Raina?
(a) Logical and distant. (b) Honest but limited. (c) Infatuated like the others. (d) Skeptical and cautious.
✅ Answer: (c) Infatuated like the others.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I’m like all the rest of them—the nurse—your parents—Sergius: I’m your infatuated admirer.”

◼️ 1099. How does Raina react when she realizes Bluntschli didn’t receive her portrait?
(a) She bursts into laughter. (b) She is shocked and disappointed. (c) She denies ever giving it. (d) She blames Sergius.
✅ Answer: (b) She is shocked and disappointed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do you mean to say you never got it?”

◼️ 1100. What was the actual location of the photograph Raina had given Bluntschli?
(a) Inside a book. (b) In her jewelry box. (c) In the coat pocket. (d) With Louka.
✅ Answer: (c) In the coat pocket.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It was in the pocket of that coat.”

◼️ 1101. Why is Raina angry with Bluntschli regarding the photograph?
(a) He shared it with Sergius. (b) He sold the coat. (c) He didn’t value it. (d) Her father might find it.
✅ Answer: (d) Her father might find it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “There still!—for my father to find the first time he puts his hand in his pocket!”

◼️ 1102. What is Bluntschli’s suggested excuse for the photo being in the coat?
(a) That he found it on the battlefield. (b) That Raina placed it recently. (c) That her father put it there himself. (d) That Sergius put it there.
✅ Answer: (c) That her father put it there himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Tell him he put it there himself.”

◼️ 1103. What does Bluntschli suspect was written on the back of the photograph?
(a) A poem. (b) A date. (c) A personal message. (d) A signature.
✅ Answer: (c) A personal message.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ah, I see. You wrote something on it.”

◼️ 1104. How does Raina insult Bluntschli after hearing he pawned the coat?
(a) She calls him a thief. (b) She calls him a coward. (c) She calls him a shopkeeper. (d) She calls him a fool.
✅ Answer: (c) She calls him a shopkeeper.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have a low, shopkeeping mind.”

◼️ 1105. What is Bluntschli’s calm response to Raina’s insult about his mind?
(a) He apologizes. (b) He mocks her. (c) He blames the war. (d) He attributes it to his nationality.
✅ Answer: (d) He attributes it to his nationality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That’s the Swiss national character, dear lady.”

◼️ 1106. Why does Louka enter the room during Raina and Bluntschli’s conversation?
(a) To scold Raina. (b) To deliver a telegram. (c) To clean the room. (d) To fetch the coat.
✅ Answer: (b) To deliver a telegram.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “For you. The messenger is waiting.”

◼️ 1107. What does Louka’s body language and appearance reveal when she enters?
(a) She is respectful and silent. (b) She is nervous and careful. (c) She is bold and indifferent. (d) She is flirtatious.
✅ Answer: (c) She is bold and indifferent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “with her bold, free gait… determined not to be civil to a Servian.”

◼️ 1108. How long had Bluntschli gone without receiving letters before Louka’s delivery?
(a) One week. (b) Ten days. (c) Two months. (d) Three weeks.
✅ Answer: (d) Three weeks.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The last postal delivery that reached me was three weeks ago.”

◼️ 1109. What tragic news does Bluntschli receive from the telegram?
(a) His fiancée has left him. (b) The war is resumed. (c) His father has died. (d) Raina is exposed.
✅ Answer: (c) His father has died.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My father’s dead.”

◼️ 1110. How does Bluntschli react to his father's death?
(a) He bursts into tears. (b) He grows silent in shock. (c) He muses calmly on the change. (d) He walks away.
✅ Answer: (c) He muses calmly on the change.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “musing on the unexpected change in his arrangements.”

◼️ 1111. What does Raina accuse Bluntschli of doing with her emotions?
(a) Lying to win her sympathy. (b) Laughing at her. (c) Ignoring her. (d) Manipulating her.
✅ Answer: (b) Laughing at her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “except to laugh at me—oh!”

◼️ 1112. Why did Bluntschli pawn the coat?
(a) To buy food. (b) To avoid looting. (c) To sell Raina’s photo. (d) To insult Petkoff.
✅ Answer: (b) To avoid looting.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “the railway cloak room… surest place to get looted… so I pawned it.”

◼️ 1113. Which national characteristic does Bluntschli mention in self-defense?
(a) Polish pride. (b) Russian honor. (c) Swiss practicality. (d) German loyalty.
✅ Answer: (c) Swiss practicality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That’s the Swiss national character, dear lady.”

◼️ 1114. What does Raina say she wishes due to her disappointment with Bluntschli?
(a) She had lied more. (b) She had married Sergius. (c) She had never met him. (d) She had told Sergius the truth.
✅ Answer: (c) She had never met him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, I wish I had never met you.”

◼️ 1115. What word best describes Bluntschli’s general demeanor during the argument?
(a) Arrogant. (b) Flustered. (c) Phlegmatic. (d) Romantic.
✅ Answer: (c) Phlegmatic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(phlegmatically)”

◼️ 1116. The phrase “thrilling voice” is an example of—
(a) Metonymy. (b) Imagery. (c) Simile. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (b) Imagery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “the noble attitude and the thrilling voice.”

◼️ 1117. “Hand aufs Herz” is best understood as—
(a) Literal gesture. (b) Cultural idiom. (c) War chant. (d) Slogan.
✅ Answer: (b) Cultural idiom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hand aufs Herz! Really and truly.”

◼️ 1118. Raina’s expression “You have a low, shopkeeping mind” functions as a—
(a) Euphemism. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Symbol.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have a low, shopkeeping mind.”

◼️ 1119. Louka’s bared arm and gold bracelet symbolize—
(a) Beauty and shame. (b) Freedom and servitude. (c) Injury and pride. (d) Strength and obedience.
✅ Answer: (c) Injury and pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “with a broad gilt bracelet covering the bruise.”

◼️ 1120. “Cloak room… surest place to get looted” suggests—
(a) Irony of safe spaces. (b) Symbol of love. (c) Alliteration. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony of safe spaces.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “railway cloak room… surest place to get looted.”

◼️ 1121. What does Bluntschli's reaction to his father’s death reveal about his priorities?
(a) He is heartless. (b) He is numb. (c) He is pragmatic. (d) He is religious.
✅ Answer: (c) He is pragmatic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “musing on the unexpected change in his arrangements.”

◼️ 1122. Raina’s statement “I suppose now you despise me” actually reflects—
(a) Confidence. (b) Guilt and vulnerability. (c) Irony. (d) Victory.
✅ Answer: (b) Guilt and vulnerability.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “now that you’ve found me out, you despise me.”

◼️ 1123. Bluntschli’s honesty about pawning the coat shows—
(a) Foolishness. (b) Brutal transparency. (c) Evasion. (d) Arrogance.
✅ Answer: (b) Brutal transparency.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I pawned it… I redeemed it the day before yesterday.”

◼️ 1124. Raina’s “How could you be so stupid?” actually expresses—
(a) Outrage. (b) Affectionate disappointment. (c) Disbelief. (d) Sadness.
✅ Answer: (b) Affectionate disappointment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, how could you be so stupid?”

◼️ 1125. Bluntschli calling himself a “shopkeeper” alludes to—
(a) Raina’s insult. (b) Sergius’s rank. (c) Swiss neutrality. (d) Louka’s influence.
✅ Answer: (a) Raina’s insult.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That’s the Swiss national character, dear lady.”

◼️ 1126. What is the reason Bluntschli gives for needing to leave within the hour?

(a) He has been summoned to war. (b) He must collect a debt. (c) He has to manage inherited properties. (d) He wants to escape Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) He has to manage inherited properties.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes: I shall have to start for home in an hour. He has left a lot of big hotels behind him to be looked after.”

◼️ 1127. How does Bluntschli react upon reading the solicitor’s letter?
(a) With controlled concern. (b) With visible shock and disbelief. (c) With anger and shouting. (d) With quiet tears.
✅ Answer: (b) With visible shock and disbelief.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Great Heavens! Seventy! Two hundred! (In a crescendo of dismay.) Four hundred! Four thousand!! Nine thousand six hundred!!!”

◼️ 1128. What does Raina mistakenly think the number “nine thousand six hundred” refers to?
(a) Horses. (b) Soldiers. (c) Hotels. (d) Telegrams.
✅ Answer: (c) Hotels.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(timidly). Nine thousand hotels?”

◼️ 1129. Why does Bluntschli excuse himself abruptly from Raina?
(a) To avoid showing grief. (b) To confront Louka. (c) To instruct his servant. (d) To contact Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) To instruct his servant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Excuse me: I must give my fellow orders about starting.”

◼️ 1130. What does Louka criticize about Bluntschli after he leaves?
(a) His rudeness. (b) His foreignness. (c) His lack of emotion. (d) His love for Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) His lack of emotion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He has not a word of grief for his poor father.”

◼️ 1131. What is Raina’s bitter comment about soldiers and emotion?
(a) They hide their pain. (b) They weep in silence. (c) They have no heart. (d) They pray secretly.
✅ Answer: (c) They have no heart.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Grief!—a man who has been doing nothing but killing people for years! What does he care?”

◼️ 1132. How does Louka compare Sergius to Bluntschli?
(a) Sergius is braver. (b) Sergius is smarter. (c) Sergius has more heart. (d) Sergius is more honest.
✅ Answer: (c) Sergius has more heart.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Major Saranoff has been fighting, too; and he has plenty of heart left.”

◼️ 1133. How does Raina exit the stage after Louka’s remark about Sergius?
(a) She apologizes and exits. (b) She slaps Louka. (c) She looks proudly and exits. (d) She weeps openly.
✅ Answer: (c) She looks proudly and exits.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(Raina, at the door, looks haughtily at her and goes out.)”

◼️ 1134. What is Nicola carrying when he enters?
(a) A tray of drinks. (b) Logs for the fire. (c) A letter from Sergius. (d) Raina’s portrait.
✅ Answer: (b) Logs for the fire.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nicola enters with an armful of logs for the fire.”

◼️ 1135. What is Nicola’s first comment about Louka’s appearance?
(a) Her hairstyle. (b) Her jewelry. (c) Her sleeve. (d) Her shoes.
✅ Answer: (c) Her sleeve.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, what fashion is that of wearing your sleeve, child?”

◼️ 1136. How does Louka respond to Nicola’s remark about her sleeve?
(a) With shame. (b) With pride. (c) With confusion. (d) With indifference.
✅ Answer: (b) With pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(proudly). My own fashion.”

◼️ 1137. What is Nicola’s attitude toward being treated well by the Petkoffs after lying for them?
(a) Grateful. (b) Humble. (c) Sarcastic. (d) Hopeful.
✅ Answer: (c) Sarcastic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “after making a fool and a liar of me before them all!”

◼️ 1138. What does Nicola plan to do with the twenty leva Sergius gave him?
(a) Spend it at the market. (b) Use it for drinks. (c) Put it into savings. (d) Give it to Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) Put it into savings.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The twenty will go to our savings.”

◼️ 1139. What does Nicola offer Louka in exchange for kindness?
(a) A gift. (b) Freedom. (c) Ten levas. (d) A ring.
✅ Answer: (c) Ten levas.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “you shall have the ten to spend if you’ll only talk to me…”

◼️ 1140. What does Louka accuse Nicola of doing with money?
(a) Gambling. (b) Bribing officers. (c) Selling his manhood. (d) Hiding wages.
✅ Answer: (c) Selling his manhood.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sell your manhood for thirty levas, and buy me for ten!”

◼️ 1141. What does Louka say about her own destiny compared to Nicola’s?
(a) She will always be a servant. (b) She is meant for more. (c) She should marry Sergius. (d) She wants to be rich.
✅ Answer: (b) She is meant for more.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You were born to be a servant. I was not.”

◼️ 1142. What does Nicola say will happen once he opens his shop?
(a) He will fire Louka. (b) He will move to Switzerland. (c) He will be master in his house. (d) He will retire.
✅ Answer: (c) He will be master in his house.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I shall be master in my own house, I promise you.”

◼️ 1143. How does Louka respond to Nicola’s vision of their future together?
(a) With affection. (b) With disdain. (c) With sadness. (d) With agreement.
✅ Answer: (b) With disdain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You shall never be master in mine.”

◼️ 1144. What does Nicola claim to have taught Louka?
(a) How to read and write. (b) How to walk in heels. (c) How to behave like a lady. (d) How to make speeches.
✅ Answer: (c) How to behave like a lady.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Who taught you to trim your nails, and keep your hands clean, and be dainty about yourself, like a fine Russian lady? Me!”

◼️ 1145. What does Nicola imply Louka could become if circumstances changed?
(a) A shopkeeper. (b) A lady of the house. (c) A mistress. (d) A customer of his.
✅ Answer: (d) A customer of his.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “you might come to be one of my grandest customers, instead of only being my wife.”

◼️ 1146. Louka’s “bare arm and altered sleeve” symbolize—

(a) Her injury and pride. (b) Her humility. (c) Her vanity. (d) Her desire to work.
✅ Answer: (a) Her injury and pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, what fashion is that of wearing your sleeve, child?”

◼️ 1147. The exaggerated numbers (“Four thousand!! Nine thousand six hundred!!!”) are examples of—
(a) Paradox. (b) Metonymy. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Four thousand!! Nine thousand six hundred!!!”

◼️ 1148. “Sell your manhood for thirty levas” is an example of—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Allusion. (c) Irony. (d) Simile.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sell your manhood for thirty levas…”

◼️ 1149. Nicola saying he made Louka “a woman” is best interpreted as—
(a) Simile. (b) Symbolic assertion of power. (c) Personification. (d) Euphemism.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolic assertion of power.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Remember: if any luck comes to you, it was I that made a woman of you.”

◼️ 1150. “You might be one of my grandest customers” instead of wife, symbolizes—
(a) Failed ambition. (b) Satirical reversal of gender roles. (c) Commercialization of emotion. (d) Political commentary.
✅ Answer: (c) Commercialization of emotion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “you might come to be one of my grandest customers.”

◼️ 1151. Louka’s refusal to take money suggests her—

(a) Hatred for Nicola. (b) Sense of pride and independence. (c) Distrust of banks. (d) Respect for Petkoff family.
✅ Answer: (b) Sense of pride and independence.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Keep your money. You were born to be a servant. I was not.”

◼️ 1152. Nicola calling Louka “dainty like a Russian lady” actually highlights—
(a) Her elegance. (b) His control over her grooming. (c) Her foreign dreams. (d) His sarcastic humor.
✅ Answer: (b) His control over her grooming.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Who taught you to trim your nails… like a fine Russian lady? Me!”

◼️ 1153. Nicola’s wish to be “master in my own house” reveals—
(a) His business goal. (b) His desire for power in marriage. (c) His rebellion against employers. (d) His fear of Raina.
✅ Answer: (b) His desire for power in marriage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I shall be master in my own house, I promise you.”

◼️ 1154. Louka’s statement “You’d rather be my servant than husband” means—
(a) She wants him to be respectful. (b) She accuses him of exploitation. (c) She teases him. (d) She trusts him.
✅ Answer: (b) She accuses him of exploitation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You would make more out of me. Oh, I know that soul of yours.”

◼️ 1155. Nicola’s “dogged self-assertion” after Louka mocks him signifies—
(a) His shame. (b) His resilience and fragile ego. (c) His love. (d) His triumph.
✅ Answer: (b) His resilience and fragile ego.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(with dogged self-assertion) Yes, me.”

◼️ 1156. What is Nicola’s primary advice to Louka regarding her behavior if she wants to be a lady?

(a) To defy everyone confidently. (b) To act impudently to show courage. (c) To act as if she expects to have her way. (d) To treat everyone with sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (c) To act as if she expects to have her way.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about."

◼️ 1157. What does Nicola claim is “the secret” of getting on both as a lady and as a servant?

(a) Self-dignity. (b) Knowing your place. (c) Courage to rebel. (d) Education.
✅ Answer: (b) Knowing your place.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You’ve got to know your place; that’s the secret of it."

◼️ 1158. What is Louka’s complaint against Nicola's advice?

(a) It encourages servility. (b) It makes her feel like a fool. (c) It takes all courage out of her. (d) It undermines her education.
✅ Answer: (c) It takes all courage out of her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You take all the courage out of me with your cold-blooded wisdom."

◼️ 1159. How does Nicola explain Louka’s frequent visits to the library to Sergius?

(a) As her act of rebellion. (b) As a wish to be educated. (c) As a foolish servant’s mistake. (d) As a result of her education.
✅ Answer: (d) As a result of her education.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "That’s the worst of her education, sir: it gives her habits above her station."

◼️ 1160. What does Sergius do when he sees Louka’s bruise?

(a) Apologizes for his behavior. (b) Offers to heal it. (c) Denies any involvement. (d) Tells her to hide it.
✅ Answer: (b) Offers to heal it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Shall I cure it?”

◼️ 1161. What is Louka’s response to Sergius’s offer to cure the bruise?

(a) She agrees quickly. (b) She slaps his hand. (c) She proudly refuses. (d) She silently walks away.
✅ Answer: (c) She proudly refuses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No. You cannot cure it now.”

◼️ 1162. What emotion does Sergius claim he never feels?

(a) Hatred. (b) Shame. (c) Regret. (d) Love.
✅ Answer: (c) Regret.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am never sorry.”

◼️ 1163. What aspect of war does Sergius sarcastically equate to animalistic behavior?

(a) Military strategy. (b) Patriotism. (c) Courage in killing. (d) Fear in battle.
✅ Answer: (c) Courage in killing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "the courage to rage and kill is cheap."

◼️ 1164. How does Sergius compare his English bull terrier to soldiers?

(a) Braver than any human. (b) More obedient than soldiers. (c) Equally courageous but submissive. (d) Smarter than most soldiers.
✅ Answer: (c) Equally courageous but submissive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have an English bull terrier who has as much of that sort of courage... But he lets my groom thrash him.”

◼️ 1165. What does Sergius find real about himself during battle?

(a) His leadership. (b) His calculated moves. (c) His bravery. (d) His love for war.
✅ Answer: (c) His bravery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Yes: that at least is real about me.”

◼️ 1166. According to Louka, what is men’s perception of courage?

(a) Simple and childish. (b) Honorable. (c) Spiritual. (d) Enlightened.
✅ Answer: (a) Simple and childish.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Men never seem to me to grow up: they all have schoolboy’s ideas.”

◼️ 1167. What power dynamic does Louka question while speaking of her duties?

(a) Social vs. economic. (b) Servitude vs. dignity. (c) Love vs. profession. (d) Ambition vs. humility.
✅ Answer: (b) Servitude vs. dignity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “How could that degrade me if it did not degrade you to have it done for you?”

◼️ 1168. What status does Louka dream of to demonstrate her inner courage?

(a) Prime Minister. (b) Military Commander. (c) Empress of Russia. (d) President of Bulgaria.
✅ Answer: (c) Empress of Russia.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But if I were Empress of Russia... then, ah, then... you should see.”

◼️ 1169. What does Nicola promise Louka if she is “promoted”?

(a) He will marry her. (b) He will remain loyal. (c) He will leave his job. (d) He will expose her secrets.
✅ Answer: (b) He will remain loyal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You may depend on me to know my place if you get promoted.”

◼️ 1170. What act does Sergius do before asking Louka if her bruise hurts?

(a) He apologizes. (b) He kisses her arm. (c) He lifts her bracelet. (d) He calls for a doctor.
✅ Answer: (c) He lifts her bracelet.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He turns up the bracelet and sees the bruise...”

◼️ 1171. Why does Nicola say one servant should stand by another?

(a) To make alliances. (b) For better opportunities. (c) As a mark of solidarity. (d) To rebel against masters.
✅ Answer: (c) As a mark of solidarity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “One servant should always stand by another.”

◼️ 1172. How does Louka react when Sergius makes a movement to embrace her?

(a) She screams. (b) She slaps him. (c) She proudly withdraws. (d) She embraces him back.
✅ Answer: (c) She proudly withdraws.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(instantly withdrawing herself proudly)”

◼️ 1173. What class difference is highlighted when Louka refers to soldiers whose fathers are poor?

(a) Their weak discipline. (b) Their lesser loyalty. (c) Their equal courage. (d) Their better skills.
✅ Answer: (c) Their equal courage.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Did you find... the men whose fathers are poor like mine were any less brave?”

◼️ 1174. What irony does Sergius point out in the behavior of soldiers?

(a) They fight but don’t protest injustice. (b) They fear war. (c) They mock bravery. (d) They admire cowards.
✅ Answer: (a) They fight but don’t protest injustice.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They stand by and see one another punished like children.”

◼️ 1175. What metaphor does Sergius use for the brave man who follows his own will and conscience?

(a) A free bird. (b) A divine warrior. (c) The only brave man. (d) A lion of heaven.
✅ Answer: (c) The only brave man.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “he alone is the brave man.”

◼️ 1176. What does the bruise on Louka’s arm symbolize in the play?

(a) Physical weakness. (b) Emotional dependency. (c) Abuse of power and hidden passion. (d) Military honor.
✅ Answer: (c) Abuse of power and hidden passion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let me see: is there a mark there?”

◼️ 1177. Which figure of speech is used in “My heart jumped like a woman’s”?

(a) Simile. (b) Personification. (c) Metaphor. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (a) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My heart jumped like a woman’s at the first shot.”

◼️ 1178. What is the symbolic meaning of “schoolboy’s ideas” in Louka’s dialogue?

(a) Innocence. (b) Maturity. (c) Naivety and romanticized notions. (d) Formal education.
✅ Answer: (c) Naivety and romanticized notions.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “They all have schoolboy’s ideas.”

◼️ 1179. “Courage to rage and kill is cheap” contains which literary device?

(a) Irony. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Paradox. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Courage to rage and kill is cheap.”

◼️ 1180. How does the English bull terrier function symbolically?

(a) Represents loyalty. (b) Symbolizes blind bravery without dignity. (c) Depicts weakness. (d) Symbol of love.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbolizes blind bravery without dignity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have an English bull terrier... But he lets my groom thrash him.”

◼️ 1181. “I am never sorry” implies what about Sergius?

(a) He is arrogant. (b) He suppresses guilt and regret. (c) He is morally perfect. (d) He lacks emotions.
✅ Answer: (b) He suppresses guilt and regret.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I am never sorry.”

◼️ 1182. What does Louka mean when she says, “You don’t know what true courage is”?

(a) That Sergius is a coward. (b) That courage involves defying social norms. (c) That women are stronger. (d) That men lie.
✅ Answer: (b) That courage involves defying social norms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You don’t know what true courage is.”

◼️ 1183. What is the inner implication of “You cannot cure it now”?

(a) Physical healing is useless. (b) The emotional hurt is deeper. (c) She wants a doctor. (d) She wants attention.
✅ Answer: (b) The emotional hurt is deeper.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No. You cannot cure it now.”

◼️ 1184. Louka’s wish to be Empress represents what inner desire?

(a) For luxury. (b) For fame. (c) For self-determination and agency. (d) For revenge.
✅ Answer: (c) For self-determination and agency.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “If I were Empress of Russia... you should see.”

◼️ 1185. “Oh, I must behave in my own way” expresses what deep conflict?

(a) Identity vs. ambition. (b) Servitude vs. freedom. (c) Wisdom vs. rebellion. (d) Love vs. duty.
✅ Answer: (b) Servitude vs. freedom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, I must behave in my own way.”

◼️ 1186. What bold declaration does Louka make about love and royalty?

(a) Love is for servants, not queens. (b) Queens never marry commoners. (c) She would marry the man she loved, defying social norms. (d) She would marry the richest man.
✅ Answer: (c) She would marry the man she loved, defying social norms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I would marry the man I loved, which no other queen in Europe has the courage to do."

◼️ 1187. According to Louka, why would Sergius never marry someone beneath him?
(a) He believes in true love. (b) He values courage above class. (c) He fears social judgment. (d) He thinks Louka is unsuitable.
✅ Answer: (c) He fears social judgment.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You would marry a rich man’s daughter because you would be afraid of what other people would say of you."

◼️ 1188. What does Louka claim Raina will do now that the Swiss is back?
(a) Reject him. (b) Marry the Swiss. (c) Leave the country. (d) Choose Louka instead.
✅ Answer: (b) Marry the Swiss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "She will marry the Swiss."

◼️ 1189. What impulsive threat does Sergius make upon hearing Louka’s claim about the Swiss?
(a) He will kill himself. (b) He will leave the army. (c) He will kill the Swiss. (d) He will marry Louka immediately.
✅ Answer: (c) He will kill the Swiss.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I will kill the Swiss; and afterwards I will do as I please with you."

◼️ 1190. What is Louka’s defiant response to Sergius’s physical dominance?
(a) She screams for help. (b) She submits quietly. (c) She warns the Swiss might kill him. (d) She runs away.
✅ Answer: (c) She warns the Swiss might kill him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The Swiss will kill you, perhaps. He has beaten you in love. He may beat you in war."

◼️ 1191. What inner conflict does Sergius express after Louka questions Raina's loyalty?
(a) Fear of public scandal. (b) Despair over self-betrayal. (c) Joy at discovering Louka’s love. (d) Hatred for war.
✅ Answer: (b) Despair over self-betrayal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Mockery, mockery everywhere: everything I think is mocked by everything I do."

◼️ 1192. How does Louka question Sergius’s claim over her?
(a) By asking him to marry her. (b) By calling it an insult. (c) By laughing. (d) By challenging him to a duel.
✅ Answer: (b) By calling it an insult.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What does that mean—an insult?"

◼️ 1193. What final assertion does Sergius make about touching Louka again?
(a) He’ll do it only if she consents. (b) It will be in battle. (c) It will mean he marries her. (d) It will mean nothing.
✅ Answer: (c) It will mean he marries her.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If these hands ever touch you again, they shall touch my affianced bride."

◼️ 1194. What role does Bluntschli play in escalating Sergius’s insecurity?
(a) He flirts with Louka. (b) He proposes to Raina. (c) He enters calmly and is called a rival. (d) He insults Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) He enters calmly and is called a rival.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You are my rival. I brook no rivals."

◼️ 1195. How does Bluntschli react to Sergius's duel challenge?
(a) He trembles in fear. (b) He accepts humorously and practically. (c) He refuses outright. (d) He insults Sergius.
✅ Answer: (b) He accepts humorously and practically.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If I go, I shall take a machine gun."

◼️ 1196. What does Sergius mean by "I brook no rivals"?
(a) He will outwit them in politics. (b) He will forgive his rivals. (c) He won’t tolerate romantic competition. (d) He prefers friendship over rivalry.
✅ Answer: (c) He won’t tolerate romantic competition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You are my rival. I brook no rivals."

◼️ 1197. How does Louka claim she will respond if Sergius tries to return to her later?
(a) She will expose him. (b) She will forgive him. (c) She will refuse him. (d) She will blackmail him.
✅ Answer: (c) She will refuse him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Then you can come to me; and I will refuse you."

◼️ 1198. What insult does Sergius hurl at himself in despair?
(a) Fool, servant, puppet. (b) Coward, liar, fool. (c) Lover, traitor, weakling. (d) Officer, traitor, cheat.
✅ Answer: (b) Coward, liar, fool.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Coward, liar, fool!"

◼️ 1199. How does Louka suggest a man should behave in love, despite social hierarchy?
(a) By rejecting social norms. (b) By proving bravery in war. (c) By marrying for wealth. (d) By staying within his class.
✅ Answer: (a) By rejecting social norms.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I would dare to be the equal of my inferior."

◼️ 1200. How does Louka dismiss Sergius’s claim of insult?
(a) By crying. (b) By remaining silent. (c) By calmly questioning his intent. (d) By slapping him.
✅ Answer: (c) By calmly questioning his intent.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What does that mean—an insult?"

◼️ 1201. How does Bluntschli display emotional detachment compared to Sergius?
(a) By leaving the room. (b) By acting calmly and amused. (c) By shouting. (d) By confronting Louka.
✅ Answer: (b) By acting calmly and amused.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "(staring, but sitting quite at his ease)"

◼️ 1202. What aspect of Bluntschli’s response to the duel reveals irony?
(a) His refusal to fight. (b) His call for peace. (c) His suggestion of using a machine gun. (d) His willingness to die.
✅ Answer: (c) His suggestion of using a machine gun.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "If I go, I shall take a machine gun."

◼️ 1203. Why does Louka say the Swiss might beat Sergius in war?
(a) Because he is better armed. (b) Because he is clever. (c) Because he beat him in love. (d) Because he is from a powerful country.
✅ Answer: (c) Because he beat him in love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "He has beaten you in love. He may beat you in war."

◼️ 1204. What does Sergius offer Bluntschli as a sign of twisted gallantry?
(a) Money. (b) A sabre. (c) His best horse. (d) A gun.
✅ Answer: (c) His best horse.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Shall I lend you my best horse?"

◼️ 1205. How does Raina enter the scene, contextually heightening tension?
(a) She overhears Bluntschli’s threat. (b) She walks in as Bluntschli accepts the duel. (c) She interrupts Louka and Sergius. (d) She joins the duel.
✅ Answer: (b) She walks in as Bluntschli accepts the duel.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Raina comes in, and hears the next sentence."

◼️ 1206. What symbolic role does Louka’s rise from servant to claimed lover play?

(a) A metaphor for obedience. (b) A symbol of revolution and desire for equality. (c) An image of cowardice. (d) A religious allegory.
✅ Answer: (b) A symbol of revolution and desire for equality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I would dare to be the equal of my inferior."

◼️ 1207. The phrase “everything I think is mocked by everything I do” is an example of—
(a) Irony. (b) Simile. (c) Metaphor. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (d) Paradox.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Everything I think is mocked by everything I do."

◼️ 1208. “By all the stars!” is an example of—
(a) Irony. (b) Apostrophe. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Oxymoron.
✅ Answer: (c) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You lie: it is not so, by all the stars!"

◼️ 1209. The phrase “damn your horse” reflects—
(a) Symbol of animal cruelty. (b) Class-based rejection of aristocratic honor codes. (c) Affection. (d) Love for machinery.
✅ Answer: (b) Class-based rejection of aristocratic honor codes.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "No: damn your horse!"

◼️ 1210. The idea of touching Louka again “as my affianced bride” symbolizes—
(a) A truce. (b) Surrender. (c) Honor through union. (d) Hypocrisy.
✅ Answer: (c) Honor through union.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "They shall touch my affianced bride."

◼️ 1211. What does Sergius’s repetition of “mockery” imply?

(a) Joy at change. (b) Realization of self-hypocrisy. (c) Admiration for Louka. (d) Fear of death.
✅ Answer: (b) Realization of self-hypocrisy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Mockery, mockery everywhere..."

◼️ 1212. Louka’s calm defiance in saying “What does that mean—an insult?” implies—
(a) Threat. (b) Helplessness. (c) Agency and self-respect. (d) Blind love.
✅ Answer: (c) Agency and self-respect.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "What does that mean—an insult?"

◼️ 1213. Bluntschli’s machine gun reference carries what subtext?
(a) Comic bravado. (b) Futility of violence. (c) Tactical advantage. (d) Class superiority.
✅ Answer: (a) Comic bravado.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I shall take a machine gun."

◼️ 1214. Sergius’s use of “Switzer” is meant to—
(a) Insult nationality. (b) Praise Swiss neutrality. (c) Acknowledge bravery. (d) Avoid naming him.
✅ Answer: (c) Acknowledge bravery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Well said, Switzer."

◼️ 1215. Louka’s final words “I will not wait long” reflect—
(a) Her desire for revenge. (b) Her demand for honor and action. (c) Her boredom. (d) Her fear.
✅ Answer: (b) Her demand for honor and action.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "But take care. I will not wait long."

◼️ 1216. What is Raina’s immediate reaction when she hears Bluntschli and Sergius are about to fight?

(a) She supports the duel. (b) She faints in shock. (c) She anxiously asks the reason. (d) She blames herself.
✅ Answer: (c) She anxiously asks the reason.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have heard what Captain Bluntschli said, Sergius. You are going to fight. Why?”

◼️ 1217. How does Bluntschli describe his readiness for the duel with Sergius?

(a) Fearfully. (b) Confidently and calmly. (c) Sarcastically. (d) Apologetically.
✅ Answer: (b) Confidently and calmly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No harm will be done: I’ve often acted as sword instructor.”

◼️ 1218. What does Raina’s emotional response (“I never said I wanted to see you again”) suggest?

(a) She wants to see Bluntschli again. (b) She is indifferent to Bluntschli. (c) She’s angry at Sergius. (d) She regrets meeting Bluntschli.
✅ Answer: (a) She wants to see Bluntschli again.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(turning away deeply hurt, almost with a sob in her voice)”

◼️ 1219. What does Sergius interpret Raina’s response as?

(a) An insult. (b) A confession of love. (c) A lie. (d) A distraction.
✅ Answer: (b) A confession of love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Ha! That is a confession.”

◼️ 1220. What accusation does Sergius level against both Raina and Bluntschli?

(a) Treason. (b) Cowardice. (c) Deception in love. (d) Theft.
✅ Answer: (c) Deception in love.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You allow him to make love to you behind my back…”

◼️ 1221. How does Bluntschli respond to Sergius’s accusation about receiving favours from Raina?

(a) He apologizes. (b) He leaves the room. (c) He angrily denies it. (d) He laughs.
✅ Answer: (c) He angrily denies it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Stuff! Rubbish! I have received no favours.”

◼️ 1222. What surprising revelation does Raina make upon hearing Bluntschli’s comment?

(a) She intends to marry Sergius. (b) She loves war. (c) She does not know if Bluntschli is married. (d) She helped Bluntschli escape.
✅ Answer: (c) She does not know if Bluntschli is married.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh! … Are you?”

◼️ 1223. What does Sergius mock when he refers to Bluntschli being in Raina’s room?

(a) Raina’s nobility. (b) The code of war. (c) Their supposed intimacy. (d) His own cowardice.
✅ Answer: (c) Their supposed intimacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You have enjoyed the privilege of being received in her own room, late at night—”

◼️ 1224. What critical truth does Bluntschli reveal about the night he was in Raina’s room?

(a) He was invited there. (b) He bribed Raina. (c) He was forced to hide. (d) He was wounded.
✅ Answer: (c) He was forced to hide.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She received me with a pistol at her head… I’d have blown out her brains…”

◼️ 1225. How does Raina react when her integrity is questioned?

(a) Calmly. (b) With sarcasm. (c) With wrathful majesty. (d) With tears.
✅ Answer: (c) With wrathful majesty.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(rising in wrathful majesty). Oh, how dare you, how dare you?”

◼️ 1226. What is Sergius’s reaction when asked to apologize?

(a) He does so humbly. (b) He avoids answering. (c) He refuses firmly. (d) He blames Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) He refuses firmly.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I never apologize.”

◼️ 1227. Who does Raina believe is responsible for spreading the story?

(a) Sergius. (b) Bluntschli. (c) Louka. (d) The dead soldier.
✅ Answer: (b) Bluntschli.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This is the doing of that friend of yours, Captain Bluntschli.”

◼️ 1228. What is Bluntschli’s reply about the man who could have gossiped about Raina?

(a) He escaped. (b) He’s been promoted. (c) He’s dead—burnt alive. (d) He’s now in jail.
✅ Answer: (c) He’s dead—burnt alive.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “No: he’s dead—burnt alive.”

◼️ 1229. How does Sergius describe war and love at the end of his cynicism?

(a) Sacred. (b) Necessary. (c) Hollow shams. (d) Misunderstood truths.
✅ Answer: (c) Hollow shams.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A fraud, Bluntschli, a hollow sham, like love.”

◼️ 1230. What does Raina accuse Sergius of doing that shatters her ideal image of him?

(a) Cowardice in battle. (b) Making love to Louka. (c) Gossiping about her. (d) Deceiving Bluntschli.
✅ Answer: (b) Making love to Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I know now that you were making love to her.”

◼️ 1231. What symbolic action does Raina perform after confronting Sergius?

(a) She slaps him. (b) She tears a letter. (c) She throws herself on the divan. (d) She leaves the room.
✅ Answer: (c) She throws herself on the divan.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She turns away, and throws herself on the divan…”

◼️ 1232. How does Sergius react to the collapse of his romantic ideals?

(a) He mocks himself. (b) He remains hopeful. (c) He defends himself. (d) He blames Louka.
✅ Answer: (a) He mocks himself.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Raina: our romance is shattered. Life’s a farce.”

◼️ 1233. How does Bluntschli describe his professional approach to duels?

(a) As noble. (b) As meaningless. (c) As amusing. (d) As reluctant but necessary.
✅ Answer: (d) As reluctant but necessary.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I fight when I have to, and am very glad to get out of it when I haven’t to.”

◼️ 1234. What is Bluntschli’s view of Sergius’s attitude toward fighting?

(a) Skilled. (b) Heroic. (c) Childish. (d) Amateurish.
✅ Answer: (d) Amateurish.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You’re only an amateur: you think fighting’s an amusement.”

◼️ 1235. What is revealed about Sergius’s relationship with Louka?

(a) It is platonic. (b) It was observed by Raina. (c) It’s a misunderstanding. (d) It is invented by Bluntschli.
✅ Answer: (b) It was observed by Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I saw something that I did not understand then. I know now…”

◼️ 1236. What does the “pistol at her head” symbolize in the narrative?

(a) Raina’s treachery. (b) Coercion and urgency of war. (c) A secret pact. (d) Romantic pressure.
✅ Answer: (b) Coercion and urgency of war.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She received me with a pistol at her head… Your cavalry were at my heels.”

◼️ 1237. What literary device is used in “Life’s a farce”?

(a) Metaphor. (b) Simile. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (a) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Raina: our romance is shattered. Life’s a farce.”

◼️ 1238. “A hollow sham” is an example of which figure of speech?

(a) Synecdoche. (b) Paradox. (c) Metaphor. (d) Personification.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “War… A fraud, Bluntschli, a hollow sham, like love.”

◼️ 1239. Which object in the scene emphasizes disillusionment and emotional collapse?

(a) The pistol. (b) The stove. (c) The ottoman/divan. (d) The sword.
✅ Answer: (c) The ottoman/divan.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She throws herself on the divan…”

◼️ 1240. What does the “stove” represent when Sergius goes and stands near it?

(a) Warmth of truth. (b) A silent witness. (c) Emotional coldness. (d) A place of reflection.
✅ Answer: (d) A place of reflection.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius turns away in silence, and goes to the stove…”

◼️ 1241. What is the inner meaning behind Bluntschli saying, “You see: he’s found himself out now”?

(a) Sergius has realized his love. (b) Sergius accepts war. (c) Sergius has recognized his hypocrisy. (d) Sergius has given up on Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) Sergius has recognized his hypocrisy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You see: he’s found himself out now.”

◼️ 1242. What does “the privilege of being received in her own room” ironically point to?

(a) Hospitality. (b) Romantic trust. (c) Danger disguised as intimacy. (d) Raina’s recklessness.
✅ Answer: (c) Danger disguised as intimacy.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She received me with a pistol at her head.”

◼️ 1243. What deeper truth does Raina’s exclamation “What sort of god is this I have been worshipping?” uncover?

(a) Sergius has divine qualities. (b) She blames herself for being naïve. (c) She realizes her idol is flawed. (d) She still loves him.
✅ Answer: (c) She realizes her idol is flawed.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Oh, what sort of god is this I have been worshipping!”

◼️ 1244. Why does Sergius refuse to fight Bluntschli?

(a) He is afraid of losing. (b) He feels Bluntschli lacks manliness. (c) He has decided to become a pacifist. (d) He respects Bluntschli too much.
✅ Answer: (b) He feels Bluntschli lacks manliness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You’ve no magnetism: you’re not a man, you’re a machine.”

◼️ 1245. How does Bluntschli respond to being called a machine?

(a) With anger. (b) With mockery. (c) With apology. (d) With confusion.
✅ Answer: (c) With apology.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Quite true, quite true. I always was that sort of chap. I’m very sorry.”

◼️ 1246. What does Raina accuse Sergius of after he speaks of Louka?

(a) Cowardice. (b) Spying. (c) Dishonesty. (d) Betrayal.
✅ Answer: (d) Betrayal.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Do you realize what he has done, Captain Bluntschli? He has set this girl as a spy on us; and her reward is that he makes love to her.”

◼️ 1247. How does Raina sarcastically describe the engagement of Louka and Nicola?

(a) As a fairy tale. (b) As a noble sacrifice. (c) As a shocking waste. (d) As poetic justice.
✅ Answer: (c) As a shocking waste.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Such beauty, such intellect, such modesty, wasted on a middle-aged servant man!”

◼️ 1248. What is Sergius's emotional reaction when told about Louka and Nicola’s engagement?

(a) Indifference. (b) Hysterical laughter. (c) Controlled silence. (d) Stern composure.
✅ Answer: (b) Hysterical laughter.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Engaged to Nicola! (He rises.) Ha! ha!”

◼️ 1249. Why does Raina call Sergius's chivalry unworthy?

(a) Because he betrays her trust. (b) Because he insults Bluntschli. (c) Because he fails to defend Louka. (d) Because he abandons his ideals.
✅ Answer: (a) Because he betrays her trust.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It would be unworthy of your chivalry.”

◼️ 1250. What does Raina say when Sergius calls her a ‘viper’?

(a) She cries. (b) She appeals to Bluntschli. (c) She slaps him. (d) She leaves the room.
✅ Answer: (b) She appeals to Bluntschli.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You hear this man calling me names, Captain Bluntschli?”

◼️ 1251. What emotion does Sergius express when dragged to the ottoman?

(a) Outrage. (b) Humiliation. (c) Pride. (d) Anger.
✅ Answer: (b) Humiliation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sinks on the ottoman, clutching his averted head between his fists.”

◼️ 1252. How does Raina react after trying to appear vexed with Bluntschli?

(a) She scolds him. (b) She bursts into tears. (c) She starts laughing. (d) She walks away.
✅ Answer: (c) She starts laughing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She falls a victim to her sense of humor, and is attacked with a disposition to laugh.”

◼️ 1253. Who does Sergius accuse of eavesdropping?

(a) Nicola. (b) Catherine. (c) Louka. (d) Raina.
✅ Answer: (c) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Returns dragging in Louka... Judge the eavesdropper.”

◼️ 1254. What is Louka’s defense when accused of listening at the door?

(a) That she didn’t hear anything. (b) That Nicola told her to. (c) That she was bored. (d) That her love was at stake.
✅ Answer: (d) That her love was at stake.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My love was at stake. I am not ashamed.”

◼️ 1255. What does Raina accuse Louka of?

(a) Lying. (b) Flattery. (c) Curiosity. (d) Theft.
✅ Answer: (c) Curiosity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your love! Your curiosity, you mean.”

◼️ 1256. What metaphor does Sergius use to describe Bluntschli?

(a) A glacier. (b) A machine. (c) A shadow. (d) A coward.
✅ Answer: (b) A machine.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You’re not a man, you’re a machine.”

◼️ 1257. How does Sergius mock Swiss civilization?

(a) By comparing it to a joke. (b) By praising Bulgarian bravery. (c) By calling it nurse-tending. (d) By calling it dull.
✅ Answer: (c) By calling it nurse-tending.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Swiss civilization nursetending Bulgarian barbarism, eh?”

◼️ 1258. How does Bluntschli suggest resolving the conflict?

(a) With an apology. (b) Through discussion. (c) Through dueling. (d) By leaving.
✅ Answer: (b) Through discussion.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let’s be pleasant and talk it over in a friendly way.”

◼️ 1259. What does Raina intuitively guess Bluntschli thinks of them?

(a) That they are immature. (b) That they are wise. (c) That they are liars. (d) That they are dangerous.
✅ Answer: (a) That they are immature.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I daresay you think us a couple of grown up babies, don’t you?”

◼️ 1260. What expression does Bluntschli use when trying to calm everyone down?

(a) “Come now, be silent.” (b) “Don’t be fools.” (c) “Let’s be pleasant.” (d) “Hold your temper.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Let’s be pleasant.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Let’s be pleasant and talk it over in a friendly way.”

◼️ 1261. What does Raina call Bluntschli’s concern for her happiness?

(a) Interfering. (b) Strange. (c) Solicitous. (d) Sincere.
✅ Answer: (c) Solicitous.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You are very solicitous about my happiness and his.”

◼️ 1262. Which character physically drags Louka into the room?

(a) Nicola. (b) Raina. (c) Bluntschli. (d) Sergius.
✅ Answer: (d) Sergius.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Returns dragging in Louka.”

◼️ 1263. What does Bluntschli say about judging Louka?

(a) He refuses to. (b) He supports it. (c) He mocks it. (d) He delays it.
✅ Answer: (a) He refuses to.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I mustn’t judge her.”

◼️ 1264. “You’re not a man, you’re a machine.” What figure of speech is this?

(a) Simile. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Comparison without "like" or "as" between man and machine.

◼️ 1265. “Swiss civilization nursetending Bulgarian barbarism” uses which rhetorical device?

(a) Personification. (b) Alliteration. (c) Irony. (d) Juxtaposition.
✅ Answer: (d) Juxtaposition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The civilized vs. the uncivilized placed side-by-side.

◼️ 1266. Louka being dragged in and flung shows what dramatic device?

(a) Symbolism. (b) Stage irony. (c) Climax. (d) Visual metaphor.
✅ Answer: (d) Visual metaphor.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her physical treatment symbolizes her perceived guilt.

◼️ 1267. The “ottoman” becomes a symbol of what throughout this scene?

(a) Aggression. (b) Comfort. (c) Humiliation. (d) Authority.
✅ Answer: (c) Humiliation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sergius sinks into it in shame; Raina collapses onto it emotionally.

◼️ 1268. “Viper! Viper!” is an example of—

(a) Epithet. (b) Apostrophe. (c) Simile. (d) Epizeuxis.
✅ Answer: (d) Epizeuxis.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Repetition of the word for emphasis.

◼️ 1269. What does Sergius really mean when he says, “You are not a man, you’re a machine”?

(a) Bluntschli is weak. (b) Bluntschli lacks romantic spirit. (c) Bluntschli is emotionless and efficient. (d) Bluntschli is cowardly.
✅ Answer: (c) Bluntschli is emotionless and efficient.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Shows contempt for Bluntschli’s rational and unromantic nature.

◼️ 1270. What does Raina’s sarcastic comment about Louka’s engagement reveal?

(a) Her jealousy. (b) Her approval. (c) Her bitterness. (d) Her regret.
✅ Answer: (c) Her bitterness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Tone reveals contempt more than sympathy.

◼️ 1271. Bluntschli’s line “What good does it do?” reflects what inner stance?

(a) Frustration. (b) Practical pacifism. (c) Resentment. (d) Hopelessness.
✅ Answer: (b) Practical pacifism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Emphasizes his realistic, conflict-avoiding mindset.

◼️ 1272. Louka’s “My love was at stake” indicates—

(a) Her manipulation. (b) Her ambition. (c) Her pride. (d) Her emotional justification.
✅ Answer: (d) Her emotional justification.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: She rationalizes her eavesdropping through personal stakes.

◼️ 1273. What does Sergius’s phrase “Ha! ha!” after learning of Louka’s engagement indicate?

(a) Joy. (b) Bitterness. (c) Disbelief. (d) Amusement.
✅ Answer: (b) Bitterness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The forced laughter reflects shock and scorn.

◼️ 1274. What emotion does Louka convey when she retorts to Raina about love?

(a) Anger. (b) Indifference. (c) Confidence. (d) Fear.
✅ Answer: (c) Confidence
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My love, stronger than anything you can feel..."

◼️ 1275. What does Sergius initially think Louka’s comment about chocolate cream soldier refers to?
(a) The photograph. (b) Raina's past. (c) A secret affair. (d) The ice pudding incident.
✅ Answer: (d) The ice pudding incident
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Oh, I remember, the ice pudding. A paltry taunt, girl."

◼️ 1276. How does Petkoff react to the coat’s condition?
(a) He accuses Nicola. (b) He suspects Sergius. (c) He complains about his wife. (d) He blames the tailor.
✅ Answer: (c) He complains about his wife
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your mother is mending it. I wish she’d make haste."

◼️ 1277. What excuse does Louka make to remain in the room after being told to fetch the coat?
(a) She pretends to dust. (b) She arranges the flowers. (c) She shifts the table with the hookah. (d) She brings in a letter.
✅ Answer: (c) She shifts the table with the hookah
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...she makes a pretence of having business in the room by taking the little table with the hookah..."

◼️ 1278. What does Raina cleverly do while helping Petkoff with his coat?
(a) Passes a secret note to Louka. (b) Hides a letter in the sleeve. (c) Takes out the photograph. (d) Tears the lining.
✅ Answer: (c) Takes out the photograph
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "She dexterously takes the photograph from the pocket and throws it on the table..."

◼️ 1279. How does Bluntschli respond to Raina throwing the photograph?
(a) He burns it. (b) He hides it under a paper. (c) He gives it to Sergius. (d) He puts it back in the coat.
✅ Answer: (b) He hides it under a paper
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...who covers it with a sheet of paper under the very nose of Sergius..."

◼️ 1280. What raises Petkoff’s suspicions regarding the coat?
(a) The photograph is missing. (b) The stitching is odd. (c) It's a different coat. (d) The buttons are changed.
✅ Answer: (a) The photograph is missing
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your mother’s taken it."

◼️ 1281. What is the inscription on the missing photograph?
(a) “To my brave soldier.” (b) “A keepsake for Sergius.” (c) “Raina, to her Chocolate Cream Soldier—a souvenir.” (d) “Love, always—R.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Raina, to her Chocolate Cream Soldier—a souvenir.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Your photograph, with the inscription: 'Raina, to her Chocolate Cream Soldier—a souvenir.'"

◼️ 1282. Who does Petkoff mistakenly suspect to be the Chocolate Cream Soldier?
(a) Nicola. (b) Sergius. (c) Bluntschli. (d) Major Panov.
✅ Answer: (b) Sergius
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Sergius: you’re the chocolate cream soldier, aren’t you?"

◼️ 1283. How does Sergius react to being called the Chocolate Cream Soldier?
(a) With pride. (b) With anger. (c) He confirms it. (d) He denies it.
✅ Answer: (d) He denies it
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I! a chocolate cream soldier! Certainly not."

◼️ 1284. Who ultimately claims to be the real Chocolate Cream Soldier?
(a) Sergius. (b) Nicola. (c) Petkoff. (d) Bluntschli.
✅ Answer: (d) Bluntschli
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "It’s all right, Major. I’m the chocolate cream soldier."

◼️ 1285. How did Bluntschli describe the chocolate creams Raina gave him?
(a) Bittersweet like war. (b) Tasteless and stale. (c) Delicious and memorable. (d) Disappointing yet kind.
✅ Answer: (c) Delicious and memorable
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...shall I ever forget their flavour!"

◼️ 1286. How does Raina react when confronted about the photograph?
(a) Calm but visibly flustered. (b) Boldly defiant. (c) Outright denial. (d) Feigned ignorance.
✅ Answer: (a) Calm but visibly flustered
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "(very red)"

◼️ 1287. What is Nicola doing when Petkoff questions him?
(a) Dusting the window. (b) Bringing the coat. (c) Attending to the fire. (d) Serving wine.
✅ Answer: (c) Attending to the fire
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "Nicola attends to the fire."

◼️ 1288. How does Nicola respond to the accusation about the spoiled pastry?
(a) He denies it strongly. (b) He blames Louka. (c) He affirms Raina’s truthfulness. (d) He says he forgot.
✅ Answer: (c) He affirms Raina’s truthfulness
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I am sure Miss Raina is incapable of saying anything that is not true..."

◼️ 1289. What tone does Sergius adopt when commenting about the world's innocence?
(a) Ironical. (b) Childlike. (c) Hopeful. (d) Defensive.
✅ Answer: (a) Ironical
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "The world is not such an innocent place..."

◼️ 1290. How does Bluntschli calm the situation about the photograph?
(a) Denies involvement. (b) Diverts the topic. (c) Accepts being the soldier. (d) Asks Raina to explain.
✅ Answer: (c) Accepts being the soldier
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "I’m the chocolate cream soldier."

◼️ 1291. Whose story first revealed the Chocolate Cream Soldier to Petkoff?
(a) Nicola’s. (b) Raina’s. (c) Bluntschli’s. (d) Stolz’s.
✅ Answer: (d) Stolz’s
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "My late friend Stolz told you the story at Peerot."

◼️ 1292. What emotion does Petkoff express toward Raina after learning the truth?
(a) Disappointment. (b) Joy. (c) Confusion. (d) Sympathy.
✅ Answer: (a) Disappointment
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "You’re a nice young woman, aren’t you?"

◼️ 1293. What had Bluntschli risked at Raina’s house during the war?
(a) Arrest for treason. (b) His life. (c) Stealing documents. (d) Releasing prisoners.
✅ Answer: (b) His life
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: "...the gracious young lady saved my life by giving me chocolate creams..."

◼️ 1294. What does the “Chocolate Cream Soldier” symbolize in the play?

(a) Weakness in war. (b) The clash of romance and realism. (c) Cowardice. (d) Military glory.
✅ Answer: (b) The clash of romance and realism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The title "Chocolate Cream Soldier" mocks romantic heroism with sugary sentimentality.

◼️ 1295. “Your mother’s taken it.” — What literary device is being used here subtly?
(a) Irony. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Metaphor. (d) Understatement.
✅ Answer: (a) Irony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The audience knows Raina took the photo, not her mother—creating situational irony.

◼️ 1296. “You’re a nice young woman, aren’t you?” — What tone is this delivered in?
(a) Literal. (b) Mocking. (c) Proud. (d) Naïve.
✅ Answer: (b) Mocking
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff delivers it with sarcasm after discovering Raina’s deception.

◼️ 1297. “I! a chocolate cream soldier!” — Which figure of speech is reflected in Sergius's tone?
(a) Euphemism. (b) Repetition. (c) Exclamation. (d) Apostrophe.
✅ Answer: (c) Exclamation
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His rejection is emphasized by the dramatic exclamation.

◼️ 1298. The coat pocket scene is an example of which theatrical technique?
(a) Dramatic irony. (b) Comic relief. (c) Metaphor. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (a) Dramatic irony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The audience knows the photo’s importance before Petkoff realizes it’s missing.

◼️ 1299. “A paltry taunt, girl.” — What is Sergius trying to dismiss here?

(a) His guilt. (b) Louka’s implication about Raina. (c) The ice pudding incident. (d) The photograph.
✅ Answer: (c) The ice pudding incident
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sergius downplays Louka’s veiled reference.

◼️ 1300. “My love was at stake.” — What deeper meaning does Louka’s statement carry?
(a) Manipulation. (b) Self-respect. (c) Her agency and passion. (d) Betrayal.
✅ Answer: (c) Her agency and passion
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Louka justifies her eavesdropping as emotional investment, not deceit.

◼️ 1301. “You’re getting the worst of this.” — What is implied by Bluntschli here?
(a) Sergius is wrong. (b) Sergius is being humiliated. (c) Raina is leaving him. (d) Louka is winning.
✅ Answer: (b) Sergius is being humiliated
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Bluntschli observes Sergius’s emotional loss.

◼️ 1302. “I’m only glad to get you two quieted.” — What does this suggest about Bluntschli?
(a) He wants to escape. (b) He finds them boring. (c) He’s rational and peacekeeping. (d) He’s mocking them.
✅ Answer: (c) He’s rational and peacekeeping
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Bluntschli often acts as the mature observer.

◼️ 1303. “Now you know there’s something more in this than meets the eye...” — What is Petkoff implying?
(a) A hidden truth. (b) Magic. (c) Forgetfulness. (d) Political corruption.
✅ Answer: (a) A hidden truth
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff begins to uncover the secret connection between Raina and Bluntschli.

◼️ 1304. What does Raina accuse Bluntschli of in a tone of deep reproach?

(a) Hiding her photograph. (b) Being married. (c) Betraying her love. (d) Faking illness.
✅ Answer: (b) Being married.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You said you were.”

◼️ 1305. How does Bluntschli react to Raina's claim about his marriage?
(a) Calmly agrees. (b) Protests vehemently. (c) Stays silent. (d) Denies vaguely.
✅ Answer: (b) Protests vehemently.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(much startled protesting vehemently). I’m not married.”

◼️ 1306. Whom does Raina ultimately declare as the object of Sergius’s current affections?
(a) Herself. (b) Catherine. (c) Louka. (d) Nicola.
✅ Answer: (c) Louka.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “This young lady... is the object of Major Saranoff’s affections at present.”

◼️ 1307. How does Nicola describe his actual relationship with Louka?
(a) That they are secretly married. (b) That he truly loves her. (c) That she is beneath him. (d) That he was only her confidential servant.
✅ Answer: (d) That he was only her confidential servant.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have been no more than her confidential servant.”

◼️ 1308. What does Nicola hope to do in Sofia?
(a) Open a hotel. (b) Become a nobleman. (c) Set up a shop. (d) Marry Louka.
✅ Answer: (c) Set up a shop.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I intend... to set up a shop later on in Sofia.”

◼️ 1309. What expression does Petkoff use to react to the sudden revelations?
(a) “God bless us!” (b) “By thunder!” (c) “Well, I am—hm!” (d) “Ridiculous!”
✅ Answer: (c) “Well, I am—hm!”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “(breaking the silence). Well, I am—-hm!”

◼️ 1310. How does Bluntschli describe Nicola after his exit?
(a) Dishonest but clever. (b) Servile but ambitious. (c) The ablest man in Bulgaria. (d) The best liar he’s seen.
✅ Answer: (c) The ablest man in Bulgaria.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nicola’s the ablest man I’ve met in Bulgaria.”

◼️ 1311. What quality of Louka does Sergius finally acknowledge and respect by proposing to her?
(a) Her beauty. (b) Her boldness and pride. (c) Her silence. (d) Her obedience.
✅ Answer: (b) Her boldness and pride.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That touch makes me your affianced wife.”

◼️ 1312. How does Catherine react upon discovering Louka in Sergius’s arms?
(a) Faints. (b) Laughs nervously. (c) Questions it. (d) Applauds.
✅ Answer: (c) Questions it.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What does this mean?”

◼️ 1313. What does Catherine accuse Louka of?
(a) Theft. (b) Eavesdropping. (c) Lying. (d) Loving Sergius secretly.
✅ Answer: (c) Lying.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Louka: you have been telling stories.”

◼️ 1314. Louka claims she told Sergius that Raina would not marry him under what condition?
(a) If Nicola left. (b) If the war ended. (c) If the Swiss gentleman returned. (d) If her parents agreed.
✅ Answer: (c) If the Swiss gentleman returned.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I told Major Saranoff she would never marry him if the Swiss gentleman came back.”

◼️ 1315. What does Louka say gives her the right to call Raina by her first name?
(a) Their shared history. (b) The fact that Raina does the same. (c) Her new engagement. (d) Her confidence.
✅ Answer: (b) The fact that Raina does the same.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have a right to call her Raina: she calls me Louka.”

◼️ 1316. According to Bluntschli, what kind of imagination does Raina possess?
(a) Practical and realistic. (b) Childlike and honest. (c) Romantic and idealistic. (d) Suspicious and shrewd.
✅ Answer: (c) Romantic and idealistic.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with her imagination full of fairy princes and noble natures...”

◼️ 1317. How does Bluntschli describe his own life experience?
(a) Full of glamour. (b) Burdened with poverty. (c) A decent middle-class life. (d) Spoiled by romanticism.
✅ Answer: (d) Spoiled by romanticism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...a man who has spoiled all his chances in life through an incurably romantic disposition...”

◼️ 1318. Which phrase does Bluntschli use to describe Raina’s social status and appearance?
(a) “A delicate flower.” (b) “Noble in spirit.” (c) “Rich, young, beautiful.” (d) “Too proud for me.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Rich, young, beautiful.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She, rich, young, beautiful...”

◼️ 1319. What does Sergius say when Catherine reminds him of his promise?
(a) “I remember.” (b) “I was forced into it.” (c) “Nothing binds me.” (d) “I’ll explain later.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Nothing binds me.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nothing binds me.”

◼️ 1320. What is Bluntschli’s tone when congratulating Sergius and Louka?
(a) Mocking. (b) Sincere. (c) Sarcastic. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (b) Sincere.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Saranoff: your hand. My congratulations.”

◼️ 1321. What title does Bluntschli use when addressing Louka during his congratulations?
(a) Noble lady. (b) Gracious young lady. (c) Bold servant. (d) Proud bride.
✅ Answer: (b) Gracious young lady.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Gracious young lady: the best wishes of a good Republican!”

◼️ 1322. What detail about Louka’s engagement is mentioned by Petkoff earlier?
(a) The date was set. (b) He gave Nicola money. (c) Louka refused. (d) Raina objected.
✅ Answer: (b) He gave Nicola money.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, you had twenty-five levas from me on the day of your betrothal.”

◼️ 1323. “Like a repeating clock of which the spring has been touched” is an example of—

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Simile. (c) Irony. (d) Alliteration.
✅ Answer: (b) Simile.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius immediately, like a repeating clock...”

◼️ 1324. “He never apologizes” spoken about Sergius acts as—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Foreshadowing. (c) Paradox. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (b) Foreshadowing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “It’s no use. He never apologizes.”

◼️ 1325. The symbolic act of Sergius kissing Louka’s hand represents—
(a) Subservience. (b) Rebellion. (c) Social equality. (d) Mutual forgiveness.
✅ Answer: (c) Social equality.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That touch makes me your affianced wife.”

◼️ 1326. The phrase “She never cared two straws for me” is an example of—
(a) Metaphor. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Idiom. (d) Irony.
✅ Answer: (c) Idiom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She never cared two straws for me.”

◼️ 1327. “Bless my heart and soul” is a/an—
(a) Irony. (b) Hyperbole. (c) Colloquial exclamation. (d) Allegory.
✅ Answer: (c) Colloquial exclamation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Why, bless my heart and soul...”

◼️ 1328. “Nothing binds me” implies Sergius’s—

(a) Commitment. (b) Emotional instability. (c) Desire to be free of social obligation. (d) Respect for his parents.
✅ Answer: (c) Desire to be free of social obligation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Nothing binds me.”

◼️ 1329. “Louka is not engaged to me” reveals—
(a) Nicola’s heartbreak. (b) Nicola’s betrayal. (c) Nicola’s manipulation for Louka’s gain. (d) Louka’s rebellion.
✅ Answer: (c) Nicola’s manipulation for Louka’s gain.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But it was only to give Louka protection.”

◼️ 1330. “You belong to me!” suggests—
(a) True love. (b) A romantic illusion. (c) Patriarchal possession. (d) Comic arrogance.
✅ Answer: (c) Patriarchal possession.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You belong to me!”

◼️ 1331. Bluntschli's repeated self-deprecation reflects—
(a) False modesty. (b) True humility and class awareness. (c) Strategy. (d) Boasting in reverse.
✅ Answer: (b) True humility and class awareness.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A common-place Swiss soldier...a vagabond...”

◼️ 1332. “That touch makes me your affianced wife” reveals Louka’s—
(a) Manipulative tactics. (b) Use of social contract. (c) Belief in emotional symbolism. (d) Knowledge of law.
✅ Answer: (c) Belief in emotional symbolism.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “That touch makes me your affianced wife.”

◼️ 1333. “Well, I am—hm!” by Petkoff primarily conveys—
(a) Logical deduction. (b) Acceptance of absurdity. (c) Outrage. (d) Wisdom.
✅ Answer: (b) Acceptance of absurdity.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Well, I am—hm!”

◼️ 1334. What reason does Bluntschli give for his life being “spoiled”?

(a) Family obligations. (b) Poverty and war. (c) His incurably romantic disposition. (d) Raina’s rejection.
✅ Answer: (c) His incurably romantic disposition.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “An incurably romantic disposition. I ran away from home twice when I was a boy…”

◼️ 1335. What act of foolishness does Bluntschli cite as an example of his romantic nature?

(a) Fighting a duel. (b) Sending chocolates to Raina. (c) Climbing the balcony. (d) Joining the cavalry.
✅ Answer: (c) Climbing the balcony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I climbed the balcony of this house when a man of sense would have dived into the nearest cellar.”

◼️ 1336. How does Bluntschli estimate Raina’s age initially?

(a) Twenty-five. (b) Seventeen. (c) Twenty. (d) Nineteen.
✅ Answer: (b) Seventeen.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I don’t suppose the young lady is much over seventeen.”

◼️ 1337. What object does Bluntschli use to prove Raina didn’t take the affair seriously?

(a) Her bracelet. (b) Her letter. (c) Her handkerchief. (d) Her photograph.
✅ Answer: (d) Her photograph.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Here’s the proof! (He takes the photograph from the table.)”

◼️ 1338. What did Raina write on the photograph sent to Bluntschli?

(a) “To the noblest man.” (b) “To my hero.” (c) “Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier—a souvenir.” (d) “For your bravery.”
✅ Answer: (c) “Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier—a souvenir.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Would a woman who took the affair seriously have sent me this… ‘Raina, to her chocolate cream soldier—a souvenir’?”

◼️ 1339. How does Raina react to Bluntschli’s assumption about her age?

(a) She smiles. (b) She agrees. (c) She tears the photo. (d) She cries.
✅ Answer: (c) She tears the photo.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “She snaps the photograph contemptuously from his hand; tears it across; and throws the pieces at his feet.”

◼️ 1340. How does Sergius respond to Bluntschli’s error?

(a) He is supportive. (b) He mocks him. (c) He defends Raina. (d) He ignores it.
✅ Answer: (b) He mocks him.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Bluntschli: my one last belief is gone. Your sagacity is a fraud…”

◼️ 1341. How old is Raina actually, as per her own declaration?

(a) 20 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 23
✅ Answer: (d) 23
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Next time I hope you will know the difference between a schoolgirl of seventeen and a woman of twenty-three.”

◼️ 1342. What prompts Bluntschli to formally propose to Raina?

(a) Raina's scorn. (b) Petkoff’s approval. (c) Her real age. (d) Louka’s suggestion.
✅ Answer: (c) Her real age.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Twenty-three!! (He considers.) Hm!… I beg to propose formally…”

◼️ 1343. What is Catherine’s primary concern regarding Bluntschli's proposal?

(a) His character. (b) His nationality. (c) His social standing. (d) His age.
✅ Answer: (c) His social standing.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I doubt, sir, whether you quite realize either my daughter’s position or that of Major Sergius Saranoff…”

◼️ 1344. How far back does Catherine claim their family lineage can be traced?

(a) Nearly 100 years. (b) A century. (c) Thirty years. (d) Nearly twenty years.
✅ Answer: (d) Nearly twenty years.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “We can go back for nearly twenty years.”

◼️ 1345. What is Petkoff’s concern regarding Raina’s comfort?

(a) Social standing. (b) Inheritance. (c) Maintenance of lifestyle. (d) Bluntschli’s honesty.
✅ Answer: (c) Maintenance of lifestyle.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Raina is accustomed to a very comfortable establishment.”

◼️ 1346. What does Sergius claim about his horses?

(a) He has 12. (b) He owns none. (c) He keeps twenty horses. (d) He rents horses.
✅ Answer: (c) He keeps twenty horses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Sergius keeps twenty horses.”

◼️ 1347. How does Bluntschli respond to the mention of twenty horses?

(a) He laughs. (b) He says it’s absurd. (c) He boasts of 200 horses. (d) He praises Sergius.
✅ Answer: (c) He boasts of 200 horses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have two hundred horses.”

◼️ 1348. What is the number of carriages Bluntschli claims to have?

(a) 50 (b) 30 (c) 70 (d) 25
✅ Answer: (c) 70
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have seventy.”

◼️ 1349. What impresses the others when Bluntschli talks of carriages?

(a) His fashion. (b) His confidence. (c) The capacity of his carriages. (d) His wealth.
✅ Answer: (c) The capacity of his carriages.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Twenty-four of them will hold twelve inside…”

◼️ 1350. Why is Catherine irritated during the proposal conversation?

(a) She is ignored. (b) She is contradicted by Raina. (c) Her dignity is threatened. (d) She dislikes Bluntschli.
✅ Answer: (b) She is contradicted by Raina.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Hush, mother, you’re making me ridiculous.”

◼️ 1351. Why does Bluntschli describe himself as unsuitable for love?

(a) He’s a soldier. (b) He’s too logical. (c) He’s old and unromantic. (d) He’s commonplace and lived a rough life.
✅ Answer: (d) He’s commonplace and lived a rough life.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A common-place Swiss soldier… a vagabond…”

◼️ 1352. Why does Bluntschli describe himself as a “vagabond”?

(a) To insult himself. (b) To contrast with Sergius. (c) To portray humility. (d) To show how unsuitable he is for romance.
✅ Answer: (d) To show how unsuitable he is for romance.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A vagabond—a man who has spoiled all his chances in life…”

◼️ 1353. What does the photograph symbolize to Bluntschli?

(a) Flirtation. (b) A farewell gift. (c) Her mockery. (d) A schoolgirl’s amusement.
✅ Answer: (d) A schoolgirl’s amusement.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A schoolgirl’s game to her—chocolate creams and hide and seek.”

◼️ 1354. “Chocolate creams and hide and seek” symbolize —

 (a) Serious love. (b) Childhood games. (c) Girlish fantasies. (d) War memories.

✅ Answer: (c) Girlish fantasies.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Only a schoolgirl’s game to her—chocolate creams and hide and seek.”

◼️ 1355. “Your sagacity is a fraud” — is an example of which figure of speech?

(a) Hyperbole. (b) Irony. (c) Simile. (d) Paradox.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sergius says this mockingly after admiring Bluntschli’s earlier logic.

◼️ 1356. “Why, it’s a circus.” What does the circus metaphor refer to?

(a) Sergius’s house. (b) Owning too many horses. (c) Wealth display. (d) Army life.
✅ Answer: (b) Owning too many horses.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “But what on earth is the use of twenty horses? Why, it’s a circus.”

◼️ 1357. “He was stupefied”—This is an example of —

(a) Metaphor. (b) Oxymoron. (c) Personification. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (d) Hyperbole.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Describes Bluntschli’s shock at Raina’s real age.

◼️ 1358. “A man who has spoiled all his chances in life…” — conveys —

(a) Regret and self-mockery. (b) Humor. (c) Pity. (d) Bravery.
✅ Answer: (a) Regret and self-mockery.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “A man who has spoiled all his chances in life through an incurably romantic disposition.”

◼️ 1359. “You are a romantic idiot.” — implies Raina’s —

(a) Playful affection. (b) Disillusionment and anger. (c) Admiration. (d) Confusion.
✅ Answer: (b) Disillusionment and anger.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I quite agree with your account of yourself. You are a romantic idiot.”

◼️ 1360. “We can go back for nearly twenty years.” — The inner meaning shows —

(a) A long historical lineage. (b) Irony in claiming a short history as nobility. (c) True aristocracy. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (b) Irony in claiming a short history as nobility.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Catherine boasts this as if it were ancient lineage.

◼️ 1361. “You dare!” — Raina’s tone here implies —

(a) Jealousy. (b) Surprise and indignation. (c) Playful scolding. (d) Admiration.
✅ Answer: (b) Surprise and indignation.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You dare!” (after Bluntschli proposes formally).

◼️ 1362. “I have put everything right, I hope…” — implies Bluntschli’s —

(a) Confidence. (b) Misjudged self-satisfaction. (c) Bravery. (d) Guilt.
✅ Answer: (b) Misjudged self-satisfaction.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Bluntschli says this before Raina scolds him.

◼️ 1363. “My one last belief is gone.” — Sergius means —

(a) He’s bored. (b) He’s mocking Bluntschli’s wisdom. (c) He regrets breaking up. (d) He’s serious.
✅ Answer: (b) He’s mocking Bluntschli’s wisdom.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Your sagacity is a fraud, like all the other things.”

◼️ 1364. What is the quantity of eider-down quilts Bluntschli claims to possess?

(a) 2,400. (b) 4,200. (c) 9,600. (d) 10,000.
✅ Answer: (a) 2,400
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...with two thousand four hundred eider-down quilts.”

◼️ 1365. What surprising assumption does Petkoff make about Bluntschli’s identity?
(a) That he is a prince. (b) That he is an emperor. (c) That he is a colonel. (d) That he is a nobleman.
✅ Answer: (b) That he is an emperor
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Are you Emperor of Switzerland?”

◼️ 1366. What is the ‘highest rank’ Bluntschli claims to hold in Switzerland?
(a) General. (b) Governor. (c) Free citizen. (d) Magistrate.
✅ Answer: (c) Free citizen
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I’m a free citizen.”

◼️ 1367. How many servants does Bluntschli say he has?
(a) 500. (b) 600. (c) 700. (d) 1,000.
✅ Answer: (b) 600
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have six hundred servants.”

◼️ 1368. What does Bluntschli list among his possessions, apart from horses and servants?
(a) Farms and vineyards. (b) Swords and medals. (c) Carriages and medals. (d) Medals and language skills.
✅ Answer: (d) Medals and language skills
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “I have four medals for distinguished services… and I have three native languages.”

◼️ 1369. How many tablecloths does Bluntschli mention in this passage?
(a) 1,000. (b) He does not mention. (c) 300. (d) 20,000.
✅ Answer: (b) He does not mention.
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: He mentions tablecloths in the previous extract, but not in this one.

◼️ 1370. What is Raina’s initial reaction to Bluntschli’s proposal?
(a) She blushes silently. (b) She mocks him. (c) She sulks and resists. (d) She accepts immediately.
✅ Answer: (c) She sulks and resists
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The lady says that he can keep his tablecloths and his omnibuses.”

◼️ 1371. What tone does Bluntschli adopt when reminding Raina of her past kindness?
(a) Arrogant. (b) Melancholic. (c) Grateful and assertive. (d) Indifferent.
✅ Answer: (c) Grateful and assertive
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You accepted me. You gave me your hand to kiss, your bed to sleep in…”

◼️ 1372. What symbolic item does Raina refer to when reaffirming her affection?
(a) A flower. (b) A photograph. (c) The chocolate cream. (d) His medal.
✅ Answer: (c) The chocolate cream
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To my chocolate cream soldier!”

◼️ 1373. What does Bluntschli check before he departs?
(a) His coat. (b) Raina’s reply. (c) His watch. (d) The door.
✅ Answer: (c) His watch
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Looks at his watch and suddenly becomes businesslike.”

◼️ 1374. How does Bluntschli address the ladies before leaving?
(a) “Goodbye, sweet ladies.” (b) “Farewell, noble women.” (c) “Ladies, I bid you farewell.” (d) “Gracious ladies—good evening.”
✅ Answer: (d) “Gracious ladies—good evening.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Exact quote from the text.

◼️ 1375. What parting advice does Bluntschli give Sergius?
(a) “Don’t forget me.” (b) “Don’t get married until I come back.” (c) “Hold the fort.” (d) “Take care of Raina.”
✅ Answer: (b) “Don’t get married until I come back.”
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Direct quote from Bluntschli’s parting words.

◼️ 1376. How long until Bluntschli says he will return?
(a) One week. (b) Two days. (c) Two weeks. (d) A fortnight.
✅ Answer: (d) A fortnight
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...I shall be here punctually at five in the evening on Tuesday fortnight.”

◼️ 1377. What kind of bow does Bluntschli make before leaving?
(a) Royal. (b) Sarcastic. (c) Military. (d) Humble.
✅ Answer: (c) Military
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “He makes them a military bow, and goes.”

◼️ 1378. What command does Bluntschli give Petkoff regarding troops?
(a) March to Teemok. (b) Fortify the Lom pass. (c) Send them via Lom Palanka. (d) Hold position.
✅ Answer: (c) Send them via Lom Palanka
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Send them home by way of Lom Palanka.”

◼️ 1379. What is Sergius’s final reaction to Bluntschli?
(a) Admiration. (b) Disgust. (c) Envy. (d) Pity.
✅ Answer: (a) Admiration
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “What a man! What a man!”

◼️ 1380. How many native languages does Bluntschli claim to know?
(a) One. (b) Two. (c) Three. (d) Five.
✅ Answer: (c) Three
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “...and I have three native languages.”

◼️ 1381. What establishment does Bluntschli NOT mention owning?
(a) Tea garden. (b) Private house. (c) Vineyard. (d) Livery stable.
✅ Answer: (c) Vineyard
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: There is no mention of a vineyard in the list.

◼️ 1382. What tone does Catherine adopt in her approval of Bluntschli?
(a) Sardonic. (b) Gracious. (c) Commanding. (d) Loftily polite.
✅ Answer: (d) Loftily polite
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “Then Captain Bluntschli, since you are my daughter’s choice…”

◼️ 1383. Which of the following best describes Raina’s attitude during most of the exchange?
(a) Passive. (b) Shy. (c) Playfully defiant. (d) Apologetic.
✅ Answer: (c) Playfully defiant
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “The lady says that he can keep his tablecloths…”

◼️ 1384. “Chocolate cream soldier” is an example of which literary device?

(a) Metaphor. (b) Symbol. (c) Irony. (d) Hyperbole.
✅ Answer: (b) Symbol
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase symbolizes romantic illusion and innocence.

◼️ 1385. “Are you Emperor of Switzerland?”—This line exemplifies what figure of speech?
(a) Irony. (b) Allusion. (c) Hyperbole. (d) Rhetorical question.
✅ Answer: (d) Rhetorical question
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Petkoff’s question is not meant to be answered literally.

◼️ 1386. Bluntschli’s comparison of twenty horses to a “circus” is a use of which device?
(a) Metonymy. (b) Simile. (c) Irony. (d) Sarcasm.
✅ Answer: (c) Irony
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It mocks aristocratic extravagance.

◼️ 1387. What does Bluntschli’s possession list (carriages, spoons, horses) symbolize?
(a) Military dominance. (b) Bourgeois stability. (c) Satire on materialism. (d) Realistic love.
✅ Answer: (c) Satire on materialism
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: His absurdly detailed inventory mocks societal obsession with wealth.

◼️ 1388. “Gracious ladies—good evening.” This line contains an example of:
(a) Metaphor. (b) Irony. (c) Formal epistolary tone. (d) Elevated diction.
✅ Answer: (d) Elevated diction
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: The phrase reflects formality and courtesy, contrasting with past humor.

◼️ 1389. What does Bluntschli mean when he says “I appealed to you as a fugitive, a beggar, and a starving man”?

(a) He’s reminding her of his past. (b) He’s mocking her wealth. (c) He’s elevating his status. (d) He’s threatening her.
✅ Answer: (a) He’s reminding her of his past
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “You accepted me. You gave me your hand…”

◼️ 1390. What is implied when Raina says “I did not give them to the Emperor of Switzerland”?
(a) She regrets her decision. (b) She values modesty over status. (c) She misunderstood his identity. (d) She blames herself.
✅ Answer: (b) She values modesty over status
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Her love was directed to the humble man, not the wealthy persona.

◼️ 1391. What is the apparent meaning behind “What a man! What a man!”?
(a) Disbelief. (b) Jealousy. (c) Sincere admiration. (d) Fear.
✅ Answer: (c) Sincere admiration
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: Sergius is awed by Bluntschli’s accomplishments and character.

◼️ 1392. What inner truth is revealed in Raina’s confession to Bluntschli at the end?
(a) She is unsure of herself. (b) She is still confused. (c) She has chosen true love. (d) She prefers money.
✅ Answer: (c) She has chosen true love
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: “To my chocolate cream soldier!”

◼️ 1393. Bluntschli’s final scheduling (“Tuesday fortnight”) signifies:
(a) A military command. (b) Delay in proposal. (c) His commitment to return. (d) Avoidance.
✅ Answer: (c) His commitment to return
🔷 📘 Supporting Statement: It shows his intention to formalize the proposal.

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