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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the old woman, Candide, and Cunégonde stop at the inn?
(a) Candide is robbed and beaten.
(b) The old woman is kidnapped.
(c) Someone steals Cunégonde's diamond and pistols.
(d) Cunégonde is raped and left for dead.

2. What happens when Candide discovers that Cunegonde is the young girl under the veil?
(a) Cunegonde faints.
(b) Candide faints.
(c) The old woman faints.
(d) They both faint.

3. What does Cunegonde talk about on the way to Buenos Aires?
(a) The future.
(b) Her luck.
(c) Her hardships.
(d) Her fortune.

4. What is Candide given after his rescue in Chapter 7?
(a) A serious lecture about false teaching.
(b) Ointment, food and drink, clothes, and a bed.
(c) A job as a dishwasher at an inn.
(d) Another flogging.

5. What happens in the evening of the third day after Candide is rescued?
(a) The old woman does not return with his supper.
(b) The old man hits him in the head and ties him up.
(c) The old woman returns and asks that he follow her.
(d) The soldiers give up looking for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cunégonde wearing when she meets Candide again?

2. What happens at the inn where Candide, Cunegonde, and the old woman are staying in Chapter 10?

3. After drifting downstream in Chapter 17, how does Candide's and Cacambo's ride end?

4. What do Candide and Cunegonde's brother do for a long time in Chapter 14?

5. What happens to Cacambo and Candide's horses?

(see the answer key)

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