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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Candide walk the street and ask for charity after visiting the villages that have been pummeled?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Holland.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Abaria.

2. How much does the Baroness weigh?
(a) 350 pounds.
(b) 100 pounds.
(c) 150 pounds.
(d) 90 pounds.

3. What is the setting of the first chapter?
(a) The Village of Thuder-ten-trunk.
(b) The shack of Candide.
(c) The Castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh.
(d) The Castle of King Thunder-ten.

4. On whose death does the beggar report?
(a) The Baroness and her sister.
(b) Cunégonde, the Baron, Baroness, and Baron's son.
(c) Pangloss.
(d) The Bulgarian army.

5. Who decides that the city needs an auto-da-fé?
(a) Pangloss.
(b) The sailor.
(c) The University of Coimbra.
(d) Candide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of Lisbon is destroyed by the earthquake?

2. When Pangloss and Candide walk around in Lisbon, what catastrophe strikes?

3. What does Pangloss lose after his treatment?

4. Who saves Candide from being killed by the Bulgarians?

5. What is the first village to which Candide goes immediately after he escapes from the Bulgarians?

(see the answer key)

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