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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Usbek say in letter 19 that the white eunuch should be thankful for?
(a) Not being dead.
(b) Not being fired.
(c) Not being beaten.
(d) Not being sold.

2. What women does Usbek compare in letter 36?
(a) Beautiful and ugly.
(b) Young and old.
(c) Persian and Parisian.
(d) Docile women and free thinkers.

3. Who wrote letter 10 to Usbek?
(a) Fatme.
(b) Zachi.
(c) Ibbi.
(d) Mirza.

4. Why do French women gamble, according to Usbek?
(a) Because they like it.
(b) To be like men.
(c) Because they need money.
(d) To ruin their husbands.

5. Who was Zachi found with according to letter 19?
(a) A black eunuch.
(b) Another concubine.
(c) A former slave.
(d) A white eunuch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the girl's face in Zelis' story?

2. According to letter 33, what parallel does Usbek make?

3. What do Persian women defend even after their marriage?

4. Why does the head of the black eunuchs want to made Pharan a eunuch, according to the letter he writes Usbek?

5. Who is Rica dining with in letter 66?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the republic result from according to Rica in Letter 125?

2. Who is the only wife that behaves in the seraglio?

3. Why did the Troglodytes' neighbors want to rob them of according to Usbek?

4. What people does Rica speak of in letter 48?

5. Who is forced to leave France and why according to Rica?

6. Why does Usbek consider Smyrna powerful in letter 18?

7. What boundaries do the laws of a monarchy dictate according to Usbek in letter 91?

8. What does Usbek encourage the eunuch to do according to letter 1?

9. What does Rica think of his visit to the library according to letters 127 to 131?

10. In letter 93, what does the head eunuch purchase and who does he purchase it from?

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