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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Martin does not have in Chapter 21?
(a) A place to stay in France.
(b) An ear for the French language.
(c) A very good opinion of the French people.
(d) Any experience in France.

2. What does Cacambo explain to Candide about what happens in Chapter 16?
(a) Candide has killed the girls' lovers.
(b) The girls are mutant monkeys.
(c) Monkeys are sacred to the natives here.
(d) The girls were raised by monkeys.

3. What does Martin say is in Paris?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Lots of easy money.
(c) An opportunity for adventure..
(d) A paradise.

4. What was going on in Africa at the time of the enslavement of the princess in Chapter 12?
(a) The discovery of gold.
(b) A plague.
(c) A civil war.
(d) Preparation to invade Spain.

5. Why did the old woman not marry the person to whom she was engaged?
(a) He was poisoned.
(b) He ran off with his mistress.
(c) He rejected her.
(d) He died of syphilis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much does the Baroness weigh?

2. What is Candide's illness brought on by?

3. To whom does Candide give the two coins someone gave him in Chapter 3?

4. Candide and his new traveling companion, Martin, leave on a ship bound for where in Chapter 20?

5. Why are the two girls upset when Candide kills the monkeys?

(see the answer key)

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