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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the children playing with when Candide and Cacambo come to a village in Chapter 17?
(a) Tound pieces that look like colored jewels.
(b) spinning tops made of gold.
(c) Diamond, ruby, and emerald building blocks.
(d) Long snakes that coil and hiss.

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

3. Who does Cunégonde tell Candide has not survived the attack on the castle?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her father.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Her brother.

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

5. What happens when Candide and Cacambo try to pay for their lunch with the jewels they have found?
(a) The townspeople begin to surround them and demand they hand over the jewels.
(b) The other patrons beg for their help to escape Eldorado.
(c) They are laughed at because jewels are not seen as currency.
(d) The server graciously accepts their generous gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Candide take the beggar to feed him?

2. How many soldiers surround Cacambo and Candide at the border post?

3. What has the old lady set out for Candide?

4. What does Jacques say mankind has become like?

5. What does the beggar say is the reason for his affliction?

(see the answer key)

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