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1. The setting of the play is in idyllic Bulgaria where there is a war going on between the natives and the Serbs. The hero, Captain Bluntschli, a professional soldier, joined the Serbian army. What is his nationality?
2. In the beginning of the play the heroine Raina Petkoff is engaged to Sergius Saranoff who wins a battle in a wrong way. He leads a cavalry charge against whom?
3. Bluntschli compares Sergius to which famous literary character while describing the great cavalry charge to Raina?
4. In Bluntsclhi's famous iconoclastic dialogue to Raina he calls nine out of ten soldiers to be what?
5. Major Petkoff calls his wife's habit of washing her throat every day 'abominable'. He says that to keep up his social position he is willing to bathe once every month.
6. Louka, the maid, is engaged to Nicola, the man-servant. He has been called 'ablest man in Bulgaria' by which of the characters?
7. Raina blames Louka for breaking the ornament she had prepared for the ice pudding.
8. Bluntschli mistook Raina's age and called her a school-girl of seventeen. What was revealed to be her real age?
9. Raina and her mother had sent off Bluntscli in an old coat of Petkoff. In the pocket of the coat Raina had put something for Bluntscli. What was it?
10. The play is rounded off with two marriages. Raina and Bluntschli, and Louka and Sergius. Earlier in the play only one character had predicted Raina's marriage to Bluntscli, though she was engaged to Sergius. Who was it?
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