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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Martin agree to continue on with Candide to Venice?
(a) He has heard good things about Venice.
(b) He has a brother living there.
(c) He plans to rob Candide.
(d) he wants to go on to Rome after he gets to Venice.

2. After drifting downstream in Chapter 17, how does Candide's and Cacambo's ride end?
(a) They come to a small village.
(b) The canoe falls apart and they swim to shore.
(c) The are captured by jungle natives.
(d) Their canoe runs aground and is ruined on the reefs.

3. What correspondence does Candide receive the morning after the party at the French lady's house in Chapter 22?
(a) A second invitation from the French lady.
(b) A summons to go to court.
(c) A threatening note telling him to leave Paris.
(d) a letter signed by Cunegonde, telling him she is in Paris.

4. Upon seeing the strange sight running across a field in Chapter 16, what does Candide do?
(a) Falls down laughing hysterically.
(b) Shoots the monkeys.
(c) Challenges the sword fighters.
(d) Shoots the girls.

5. Who is the captain of the sunken ship?
(a) The Dutch captain who swindled Candide.
(b) Cacambo.
(c) A Jesuit.
(d) The Governor of Buenos Aires.

6. Why does Candide decide to purchase a farm?
(a) He wants to raise chickens.
(b) The old woman suggests it.
(c) He wants to escape the public life.
(d) He wants to raise a family.

7. How much is the diamond worth that Candide pawns?
(a) 100,000 sequins.
(b) 50,000 sequins.
(c) One million sequins.
(d) 20 sequins.

8. What does Candide want to purchase with the riches he has gathered in Eldorado?
(a) Cunégonde and Buenos Aires.
(b) Cunégonde and Westphalia.
(c) A concubine and Westphalia.
(d) A slave and a house.

9. Who do Candide and Martin dine with the night after Cacambo accosts them?
(a) The Senator.
(b) A governor and a knight.
(c) Six excommunicated Kings.
(d) Four knights.

10. According to Cacambo, where is Cunégonde?
(a) Transylvania.
(b) Venice.
(c) Constantinople.
(d) Portugal.

11. How does Cacambo describe Cunégonde's appearance as she has gotten older?
(a) She is plainer than before.
(b) She is more beautiful than ever.
(c) She is ugly.
(d) She is pretty.

12. Who comes to the farm with Paquette?
(a) The old woman.
(b) Cunégonde.
(c) The Baroness.
(d) Friar Giroflée.

13. How does Cunégonde react to Candide and her brother on the banks of Propontis?
(a) She asks them what took so long.
(b) She ignores them.
(c) She warmly embraces them.
(d) She faints.

14. With what are the children playing in the schoolyard of the village in the mountains?
(a) Jewels.
(b) Rope.
(c) Sand.
(d) Rocks.

15. What is Martin's opinion of the people who inhabit France?
(a) He loves French people.
(b) He has a low opinion of them.
(c) He likes their food but not the people.
(d) He prefers Parisians to other French people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the old man's door made of?

2. What are following the two girls running through the meadow?

3. What is the cause of the gunfire that Candide and Martin hear while they are on the ship?

4. Which group of people captures Candide and Cacambo, binds them, and threatens to eat them?

5. After Candide buys back Cunegonde and the old woman, where do they all go to live?

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