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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 100 - 113.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Zephis's slave?
(a) Zazoo.
(b) Zelide.
(c) Zachi.
(d) Fatme.

2. What is Usbek mourning in letter 76?
(a) A friend.
(b) A slave.
(c) The legislators' pitiful job.
(d) One of his wives.

3. How did the society in letters 10 to 14 fare after it stabilized?
(a) They moved to another land.
(b) They became extinct.
(c) They multiplied into a whole country of virtuous people.
(d) They multiplied into a country of vicious people.

4. What are the men wasting their intelligence on according to letter 34?
(a) Unimportant matters.
(b) Women's rights.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Games of chance.

5. Who does Nargum write about in letter 49?
(a) Slaves of Persia.
(b) Women of Paris.
(c) Freed eunuch.
(d) Men of Muscovy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quality that keeps people from fearing each other according to Usbek?

2. Who weds in letter 51?

3. What makes family life more orderly according to Usbek's experience?

4. Whose habit does Usbek talk about in the 100th letter?

5. What argument does Usbek use as an example in letter 34?

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