chapter eight ( Questions & Answers )

Question 1

1- Where did Rassendyll wait for it to be two o’clock?

Answer 1

• He waited by the drawbridge gate بوابة الجسر المتحرك next to the castle.

Question 2

2- Why couldn’t Johann open the door for Sapt and his men as planned?

Answer 2

• He was helping the Duke in his fight with Rupert. He was also injured.

Question 3

3- Rassendyll has asked Antoinette to cry for help at two o’clock. Why does she do it earlier?

Answer 3

• Because she is being attacked by Rupert. He wants to punish يعاقب her for writing to Rassendyll.

Question 4

4- Why did Rupert strike his sword at Johann?

Answer 4

• Because he believed that Johann was Rassendyll’s spy.

Question 5

5- Who killed the Duke?

Answer 5

• Rupert Hentzau killed the Duke.

Question 6

6- How did Rassendyll get the keys to the King’s prison?

Answer 6

• He took them from De Gautet‘s clothes after he had killed him.

Question 7

7- Why was it lucky that Detchard did not have gun?

Answer 7

• If Detchard had had a gun, he would have shot Rassendyll dead.

Question 8

8- What did the doctor do to save the King’s life?

Answer 8

• He held Detchard for some time. He was too weak, so Detchard broke free and killed the doctor with his sword.

Question 9

9- How did the king help Rassendyll in the fight against Detchard?

Answer 9

• He helped Rassendyll by pushing a chair into Detchard as he was fighting. This made him lose his balance and fall over the doctor‘s body. Then it was easy for Rassendyll to kill him.

Question 10

10- How did the King get hurt?

Answer 10

• Detchard struck the King hard with his sword.

Question 11

11- What would have happened if the King hadn’t helped Rassendyll? Why?

Answer 11

• Detchard would have killed Rassendyll because he was a much better swordsman than him.

Question 12

12- What happened to Rassendyll before he killed Detchard?

Answer 12

• Detchard cut him on the arm.

Question 13

13- Why did Rupert ride away instead of fighting Rassendyll?

Answer 13

• Because Fritz came with a gun and Rupert knew he couldn‘t fight both of them.

Question 14

14- What did Rupert do when Antoinette pointed a gun at him?

Answer 14

• He quickly jumped into the water below the bridge.

Question 15

15- How did Rupert manage to escape after he had killed Michael?

Answer 15

• He jumped out of the window down into the moat below and swam away.

Question 16

16- How did Rupert get a horse to escape?

Answer 16

• He took a horse from a boy in order to escape.

Question 17

17- Rassendyll would surely have been killed if it hadn’t been for Fritz. Explain.

Answer 17

• Rupert would have killed Rassendyll if Fritz hadn’t arrived on a horse carrying a gun. Rupert understood that he couldn’t fight both men, so he escaped.

Question 18

18- Why did Duke Michael invite Antoinette de Mauban to Ruritania?

Answer 18

• He invited her to attend the coronation.

Question 19

19- What did the Duke do when he found out that Antoinette had warned Rassendyll in Strelsau?

Answer 19

• He tricked her by inviting her and her servants to his castle. Once she was there, he didn’t let her leave in order to stop her telling anyone about his plan.

Question 20

20- How could Antoinette continue to send letters to Rassendyll although she was locked in the castle?

Answer 20

• She could do that with the help of Johann who worked as a spy for Rassendyll.

Question 21

21- What did Sapt ask Johann and Antoinette to do?

Answer 21

• He asked them to guard the secret about the real King. (He asked them not to tell anyone that the King was a prisoner in the castle).

Question 22

22- What were Sapt’s men told about the King’s wound?

Answer 22

• They were told that the King was wounded while he was fighting to rescue his friend who was a prisoner in the castle.

Question 23

23- What were the people of Strelsau told to justify the King’s injury and Michael’s death?

Answer 23

• They were told that the brave King had fought with his brother because he had kept a prisoner in Zenda who was a friend of the King. The Duke had tried to kill the King, who was injured, but the evil Duke had died.

Question 24

24- How did the boy make a problem for Sapt, Fritz and Rassendyll?

Answer 24

• The boy ran out and said the King was behind the tree, but Strakencz and the Princess thought that the King was in the castle. Sapt had a problem to explain this.

Question 25

25- Why did Sapt tell the Princess to come alone to see the King behind the tree?

Answer 25

• He asked the Princess to come alone because he didn‘t want Marshal Strakencz to know about Rassendyll.

Question 26

26- Why did Sapt have the real King taken from his prison with his face covered?

Answer 26

• Sapt didn’t want his men or the servants to see who the prisoner really was.

Question 27

27- What did Sapt’s men and the servants think happened to the King and to the prisoner?

Answer 27

• They thought that the King was wounded in the fight to rescue the prisoner, and that the prisoner went after Rupert Hentzau.

Question 28

28- Who did the people of Strelsau think Rassendyll could be?

Answer 28

• They thought he could be an English friend of the King’s who heard about the Duke’s plans, so the Duke had locked him up to stop him from speaking to the King.

Question 29

29- Why did Rassendyll wait in the forest until dark to go to the castle?

Answer 29

• Rassendyll waited until he could go into the castle under the cover of dark. He didn‘t want anyone to see him.

Question 30

30- Why was the King very grateful to Rassendyll?

Answer 30

• Because he saved his life and taught him how to be a real King. He also helped to stop people thinking badly about the King.

Question 31

31- Why was the Princess grateful to Rassendyll?

Answer 31

• She was grateful to him for all he had done for Ruritania and the King.

Question 32

32- Why did Sapt tell the King that it wasn’t possible for Rassendyll to go back to Strelsau?

Answer 32

• Because that would cause problems as people would mistake him for the King since he looked exactly like the King.

Question 33

33- Why did Rose feel very disappointed with Rassendyll?

Answer 33

• Because he had not written a book and he refused to work with Sir Jacob.

Question 34

34- Why did Rassendyll refuse to work for Sir Jacob?

Answer 34

• Sir Jacob was going to be the ambassador to Ruritania and there would be problems as Rassendyll looked like the King.

Question 35

35- How did Rassendyll realize at the end of the story that Rose was right about taking responsibilities?

Answer 35

• He understood that a person with a position in society has responsibilities and that even without a position in society; we all have a duty to help other people when we can and we all become better people for doing so.

Question 36

36- What did Rassendyll learn from his adventures?

Answer 36

• He learnt responsibility, how to do the right thing.