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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do all of the foreigners that Candide dines with have in common?
(a) They are all kings.
(b) They all want to kill Candide.
(c) They all are wearing the same clothes.
(d) They all loved Cunégonde.

2. What do Candide and Cacambo see when they rest in a field to eat during Chapter 16?
(a) A parrot eating some berries and talking.
(b) Five men roasting a body in a cauldron.
(c) A mouse who has build a tiny house.
(d) Two monkeys chasing two naked girls through the field.

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

4. What happens to Martin as soon as he arrives in Paris for the first time?
(a) He is pickpocketed.
(b) He is given money.
(c) He falls in love.
(d) He finds a job.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How could the apartment of the old man in Chapter 18 be described?

2. Whose execution do Candide and Martin witness in England?

3. What did Giroflée's parents force him to do?

4. How many scientists work on the machine built to carry Candide and Cacambo out of Eldorado?

5. How many times is the Baron beaten on the soles of his feet for his crime?

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