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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 125 - 138.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ubsek amazed with according to letter 95 to Ibben?
(a) How long he has to wait to receive letters.
(b) That the rich can become poor so quickly.
(c) How independent women are.
(d) How intelligent the king of France is.

2. What does Rica ridicule in letter 80?
(a) European men.
(b) European communication.
(c) European fashion.
(d) European women.

3. What kind of people does Rica dislike?
(a) Ugly.
(b) Shameless.
(c) Prideful.
(d) European.

4. What does the woman killed by her husband in the story in letter 135 do to her husband as retribution?
(a) She sends a man to turn him into a eunuch.
(b) She sends a double to replace him in the seraglio.
(c) She sends a woman to kill him.
(d) She sends a ghost to torment him.

5. What happens to the girl's face in Zelis' story?
(a) It is burned.
(b) It is cut.
(c) It has too much makeup.
(d) Nothing happens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rica write about in letter 120?

2. What argument does Usbek use as an example in letter 34?

3. What are the men wasting their intelligence on according to letter 34?

4. What does Usbek request of his correspondent in the 1st letter?

5. What does Usbek hope will spread to the rest of the world from Europe?

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