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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 93 - 99.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Mullah advise Usbek to refer to to find answers to his questions in letter 17?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Qur'an.
(c) Traditions of the Doctors.
(d) The Mullah's book.

2. What profession does one of the men Usbek meet claim to have in letter 46?
(a) Stringing ladies along.
(b) Journalist.
(c) Eunuch.
(d) Priest.

3. What do Persian women defend even after their marriage?
(a) Their right to learn.
(b) Their freedom.
(c) Their right to travel.
(d) Their virginity.

4. How does Usbek describe the period of time the people of the society fought with each other?
(a) Short.
(b) Weak and unjust.
(c) Bloody.
(d) Full of promises.

5. In letter 93, where is the woman from whom the head women eunuch purchases?
(a) Visapor.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Persepolis.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Usbek describe the king of France and the pope?

2. What does the Mullah tell Usbek he has little of?

3. How does Ubsek call the silliness he talks about in letter 98?

4. Why did the neighbors of the society described in letters 10 to 14 become jealous?

5. What does Usbek say in letter 19 that the white eunuch should be thankful for?

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