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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many sheep are left one hundred days after Candide and Cacambo leave Eldorado?
(a) Ten.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Two.

2. What crime had landed the young Baron as a galley slave?
(a) Preaching Christianity.
(b) slipping into the Sultan's harem.
(c) Bathing with the Sultan's page.
(d) For being a Jesuit.

3. What does the philosopher say the King never worries about when he sends a ship to Egypt?
(a) What the women on board look like.
(b) Whether or not the mice are comfortable.
(c) What the weather is like.
(d) If a doctor is on board or not.

4. After Candide witnesses Pangloss being hanged, what happens?
(a) It starts to rain, putting out the fire that was burning Pangloss.
(b) A fellow prisoner rescues Pangloss.
(c) The rope breaks and Pangloss falls.
(d) Pangloss dies.

5. What is the cause of the gunfire that Candide and Martin hear while they are on the ship?
(a) A rifle accident by the captain.
(b) A gunpowder explosion in the berth.
(c) Two sailors fighting.
(d) Two ships fighting.

6. What has Cacambo become while he was away?
(a) A monk.
(b) A slave.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A Jesuit.

7. Where does the scene in the play Candide attends take place?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Paraguay.
(c) Arabia.
(d) Westphalia.

8. What caused Pangloss to be enslaved?
(a) Peeking into the women's bath house.
(b) taking too long helping a woman in a mosque.
(c) Trying to propose to a Muslim woman.
(d) Touching a woman he was not related to by blood.

9. How do Candide and Martin find Senator Pococurante's character?
(a) Neither kind nor cruel.
(b) Very kind and generous.
(c) Overbearing and anxious.
(d) Very fat and ill.

10. Why is Candide curious about the country with gold streets?
(a) because it is not on any maps.
(b) Because he wants to become wealthy.
(c) Because he has always heard about it.
(d) Because it is so much better than Westphalia.

11. What bizarre action follows Candide's response to what he saw running across a field in Chapter 16?
(a) The girls are cradling the dead monkeys and crying.
(b) Local villagers run at Candide and Cacambo with sticks and pitchforks.
(c) The girls throw stones at the monkey's bodies.
(d) The girls run and fall down at Candide's feet.

12. Why do the foreigners at the inn come to Venice?
(a) To ask forgiveness of the King.
(b) For Carnival.
(c) To trade at the market.
(d) To make their fortune.

13. Back from the party at the French lady's house, why does Candide feel guilty?
(a) For cheating on his Cunegonde.
(b) For losing so much money.
(c) For not taking Martin to the party.
(d) For giving the lady only one diamond.

14. Why are the two girls upset when Candide kills the monkeys?
(a) The monkeys were their pets.
(b) The monkeys were their lovers.
(c) They believe in pacifism.
(d) They think monkeys are sacred creatures.

15. What do Cunégonde's arms look like?
(a) They are covered with scars from getting whipped.
(b) They look pale and virginal.
(c) They are tanned from the sun.
(d) They are red and scaly.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Cacambo get permission for Candide and Martin to board a ship for Constantinople?

2. Who does Candide bribe to escape prison in Paris?

3. What is the philosophy that Martin claims to follow?

4. Where is the ship that Candide eventually gets on headed?

5. What is unusual about the roads Candide and Cacambo find as they climb into the mountains in Chapter 17?

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