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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Usbek, what choice do the tax laws leave men to choose between?
(a) Virtue and intelligence.
(b) Life and money.
(c) Life and land.
(d) Women and money.

2. How should nations treat each other according to Usbek?
(a) Without respect.
(b) Justly.
(c) Unjustly.
(d) With respect.

3. What books do Rica and the curator talk about according to letter 128?
(a) Husbandry.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Sculpture.

4. What does Usbek think of inhabited countries?
(a) They should be left that way.
(b) They should be used for farming.
(c) They should be populated.
(d) They should be used by slaves.

5. What does Rica think of the man that introduced him to the library?
(a) He is not very friendly.
(b) He is not intelligent.
(c) He is boring.
(d) He is friendly.

6. What happens to the woman killed by her husband in the story in letter 135?
(a) She enjoys great pleasures goes to heaven.
(b) She is reincarnated.
(c) She is taken as a slave in heaven.
(d) She goes to hell.

7. What novels shocked the monk in letter 130 more than the novels found in Europe?
(a) Novels from India.
(b) Novels from the Americas.
(c) Novels from China.
(d) Novels from Persia.

8. In letter 126, what does the philosopher believe will cause the death of all humans?
(a) A good place to live.
(b) A sun spot.
(c) A new planet.
(d) A new star.

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

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

11. Who does Usbek give authority over the women in the seraglio in letter 146?
(a) Roxane.
(b) Solim.
(c) Narsit.
(d) Zachi.

12. Who must work harder to be accepted in a society according to Usbek?
(a) The least represented religion.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Those who don't believe in God.
(d) The most represented religion.

13. What does Nargum wonder about the Tartar?
(a) If they used horses.
(b) If they accomplished more than people know.
(c) If they cared about the condition of women.
(d) If they had slaves.

14. What does the monk in letter 129 think of astrological books?
(a) They cannot be read easily.
(b) They are too big.
(c) They are accurate.
(d) They are pitiful.

15. Who is Usbek writing to in letter 119?
(a) Zachi.
(b) The great mogul.
(c) Mehemet Ali.
(d) Rica.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quality that keeps people from fearing each other according to Usbek?

2. Whose king does Rica witness the crowning of in letter 104?

3. What does the head slave think will happen to the women in the seraglio when a new woman is brought there?

4. What does Usbek think of the rituals intended to pacify the gods?

5. What does Rica write about in letter 120?

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