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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Candide punished as a prisoner in Lisbon?
(a) He is put on a rack.
(b) He is flogged.
(c) He is hung by his arms.
(d) He is hung by his feet.

2. What does Candide tell the Commandant?
(a) That the Commandant's sister is live and well.
(b) That he hates all Jesuits.
(c) That he raped Cunégonde.
(d) That he killed the Grand Inquisitor.

3. Who arrives on the ship that pulls into the harbor while Cunégonde and the governor are speaking?
(a) Candide's sister.
(b) Cacambo.
(c) Cunégonde's brother.
(d) The monk that stole Cunégonde's diamonds.

4. How are Candide and Pangloss paid for helping restore the city in Chapter 5?
(a) With meals.
(b) A coin every day.
(c) A place to stay.
(d) A diamond each.

5. How does Candide kill Don Issachar?
(a) By strangling him.
(b) With a sword.
(c) He shoots him.
(d) He hits him over the head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters survives their punishment in Lisbon?

2. What happened the man who found the old woman and spoke her language when he was a child?

3. Whose health do the soldiers make Candide drink to?

4. Who is the last person for whom the old woman worked?

5. Candide meets two men in the town of Waldberghofftrarbk-dikdorff. To whom do they drink?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens when Candide discovers who the old woman in Chapter 7 works for.

2. How does Candide lose most of his riches while trying to book a ship to Venice?

3. As Candide and Martin are walking to dinner one night, who accosts them and what does he say?

4. Describe the misfortune that befalls the runaway Candide, Cunegonde, and the old woman on the way to Cadiz.

5. Still looking for a happy man, where do Candide and Martin go?

6. Why does the Baron still not want Cunégonde to marry Candide?

7. Describe Candide's and Martin's dinner companions after seeing Cacambo in Chapter 26.

8. What are the circumstances that cause Candide to kill Cunegonde's brother?

9. What happens when Cunégonde, Candide, and the old woman stop at the inn and how do they respond?

10. Write about the information Candide gets from Cacambo on the way to Constantinople.

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