Arms and the Man: Study Help: Quiz

1: How is Raina's bedroom decorated?

a. Half rich Viennese, half cheap Bulgarian

b. Half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese

c. Like a tiki hut

d. Like a war staging room

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

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

b. She is troubled by the cruelty of war.

c. Both A and B.

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

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

a. Bullets

b. Blanks

c. Chocolates

d. Nothing

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

a. Have him arrested as a war criminal

b. Laugh at him

c. Stuff chocolates down his throat

d. Challenge him to a duel

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

a. It was a display of false heroics.

b. It was a suicide mission.

c. It was a ploy to get a promotion.

d. Sergius was demonstrating his love for Raina.

6: Why does Bluntschli return to the Petkoff house?

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

b. To see Raina one more time

c. To kill Major Petkoff

d. To prove to Sergius that Raina is a liar

7: Who does Sergius eventually marry?

a. Raina

b. Catherine

c. Louka

d. No one

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

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Raina

d. Sergius

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

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Raina

d. Sergius

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

a. Captain Bluntschli

b. Major Petkoff

c. Louka

d. Sergius

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

a. Shakespeare's romances

b. The opera

c. The Bible

d. Soap operas she listens to on the radio

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

a. A fashionable tea gown

b. A night gown and robe

c. A Parisian evening gown

d. Mountain climbing boots

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

a. Louka

b. Catherine

c. Nicola

d. Raina

14: What war is the setting for the play?

a. The Bosnia-Serbian war

b. The Serbo-Bulgarian war

c. World War I

d. The Austro-Hungarian war

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

a. True

b. False

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