chapter seven ( Questions & Answers )

Question 1

1- What three pieces of news arrived at Tarlenheim the next day?

Answer 1

• The people of Strelsau heard that the King was badly injured مصاب while hunting.
• The Duke thought he was badly injured.
• The Princess ordered Marshall Strakencz to take her to Tarlenheim to see the King (Rassendyll) as she heard that he had been injured.

Question 2

2- Why was Princess Flavia relieved شعرت بارتياح when she arrived at Tarlenheim?

Answer 2

-She was relieved to see that the king’s (Rassendyll’s) injury was not serious.

Question 3

3- Why did Rassendyll and the others have to do something quickly?

Answer 3

• Because Johann told them that the King (Rudolf Elphberg) was looking weak and ill. They could not wait any longer or he would surely بالتأكيد die.

Question 4

4- Who went with Rassendyll to the Castle of Zenda? Why? What did they take with them?

Answer 4

• Sapt and Fritz with seven men went with Rassendyll to the Castle of Zenda. They wanted to see it so that they could make plans to rescue the King. They all had weapons and horses.

Question 5

5- Where did Rassendyll ask the seven men to wait?

Answer 5

• He asked them to wait with the horses at about a few hundred metres from the castle.

Question 6

6- How did Max Holf, the brother of Johann, meet his end?

Answer 6

• He fell asleep while he was guarding the King‘s prison. So Rassendyll stabbed him to death.

Question 7

7- Why did Rassendyll kill Max Holf?

Answer 7

• He was guarding the King‘s prison. Rassendyll killed him because that was a war for the King‘s life and Max was working for the enemy.

Question 8

8- What did Rassendyll realise when he looked at the pipe?

Answer 8

• He realised that the bottom of the pipe was not fastened مثبت to the wall and he could see light coming from its far end.

Question 9

9- Why would no one hear the boat when Rassendyll rowed back to the rope?

Answer 9

• Because the wind was blowing hard.

Question 10

10- How did Rassendyll get rid of يتخلص من Max’s body?

Answer 10

• He tied the rope round Max’s body and asked Sapt to pull it up.

Question 11

11- Why did the seven gentlemen go with Rassendyll, Sapt and Fritz to the castle? What did they do?

Answer 11

• They went to protect the horses and the others in case ربما the Duke‘s men attacked. They fought with the Duke‘s men and three of them were killed.

Question 12

12- Why did Rassendyll and the men return home with heavy hearts?

Answer 12

• Because three of Sapt’s men were killed. They were worried about the health of the King, and angry that Rupert had escaped.

Question 13

13- Why was the Chief of Police looking for Mr Rassendyll?

Answer 13

• Because he disappeared. His family did not hear from him. The British ambassador reported Rassendyll missing.

Question 14

14- What did Rassendyll tell the Chief of Police to do so that the game of replacing the king wouldn’t be discovered?

Answer 14

• He told him to go back to Strelsau and tell the Ambassador what he knew. He asked him to return in two weeks to tell him what he had found.

Question 15

15- What did Rassendyll ask Rupert to do when they met near the castle of Zenda?

Answer 15

• He asked him to let the king go free and stop working for Michael.

Question 16

16- Rassendyll met Rupert the next day while they are were riding. What plan did Rupert offer to Rassendyll?

Answer 16

• He offered to help him attack the castle. But Sapt, Fritz, Michael and the King had to die. Then Rassendyll could stay as King and Rupert would be given a reward.

Question 17

17- What did Rupert Hentzau think of Michael?

Answer 17

• He thought that Michael was not a good man. Michael made him angry and Rupert nearly killed him.

Question 18

18- Why was Antoinette de Mauban being kept as a prisoner of the Duke?

Answer 18

• Because he discovered that she helped Rassendyll in the summer house. He also could not trust her.

Question 19

19- Why did Antoinette de Mauban send a message to Rassendyll with a boy?

Answer 19

• Because the Duke was keeping her a prisoner in his mansion because he couldn’t trust her. She asked Rassendyll to rescue her from that house of murderers.

Question 20

20- How did the people in Strelsau react when Rassendyll and Flavia arranged a date for their wedding?

Answer 20

• They were very happy.

Question 21

21- What was Michael’s reaction رد فعل when he heard that Rassendyll and Flavia arranged a date for their wedding?

Answer 21

• He was very furious.

Question 22

22- Why did the Duke ask for a doctor to see the real king? What was the doctor’s advice?

Answer 22

• Because the King had become so ill. The doctor advised him to set the King free at once, but the Duke refused.

Question 23

23- A doctor had been brought to see the real King in his prison. Why didn’t Duke Michael let the doctor leave?

Answer 23

• Because the doctor would tell people that the King was a prisoner.

Question 24

24- Who was helping the doctor to look after the king at the castle?

Answer 24

• Antoinette de Mauban was helping the doctor to look after the king at the castle.

Question 25

25- Who was guarding the king at the castle?

Answer 25

• Two of Michael’s six men were guarding him.

Question 26

26- Why did Rassendyll and his men pay Johann well?

Answer 26

• He paid him well to go back to the castle and act as their spy.

Question 27

27- What secrets did Johann tell Rassendyll?

Answer 27

• He told him where all the people stayed at night in the castle and the mansion القصر and who had the keys to the doors.

Question 28

28- What did Rassendyll offer Johann? Why?

Answer 28

• He offered Johann fifty thousand pieces of gold to open the front door to the mansion at 2 o’clock in the morning and to give a letter to Antoinette de Mauban.

Question 29

29- What was Rassendyll’s plan to break into the castle and rescue the king?

Answer 29

• At midnight, Sapt would take some men to the front door of the mansion. When Johann opened the door, they would quickly enter and tie up the servants if they did not want to help the King. At the same time Madame de Mauban would cry out for help from her room. The Duke would come to see what was happening. They would kill him. Then they would go to the king’s room and rescue him.

Question 30

30- Why did Rassendyll ask Antoinette de Mauban to cry out for help at two o’clock in the morning?

Answer 30

• So the Duke would go to help her. At the same time Johann would open the front door to let in Sapt and Fritz with their men.

Question 31

31- Why was the house at Tarlenheim to be filled with lights and music?

Answer 31

• So that people would believe Rassendyll and his men were having a ball.

Question 32

32- What was Marshal Strakencz’s role in Rassendyll’s plan to save the king?

Answer 32

• He would guard the house and the Princess and if, the next day, they had not returned, he would march to the castle and ask to see the King at once. If the King was not there, he would quickly take Princess Flavia back to the capital where she would become Queen.

Question 33

33- How did Rassendyll go to the castle? What did he take with him?

Answer 33

• He rode alone a different way to the castle, with clothes to keep him warm, weapons and a rope.

Question 34

34- Why did Rupert Hentzau swim across the moat to go back to the mansion? Why didn’t he use the drawbridge?

Answer 34

• The drawbridge had been pulled up for the night. He was doing something secret, so he did not use the bridge.