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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rhedi write about in letter 125?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Republic.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Monarchy.

2. What answer does Usbek give to the central question of letter 114?
(a) Slave trade.
(b) Not enough shade.
(c) Too many kingdoms.
(d) Not enough roads.

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

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

5. Who does Rica think is of no use according to letter 124?
(a) Senators.
(b) Newsmongers.
(c) Truth mongers.
(d) Warmongers.

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

7. What does Rica write about in letter 120?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Hell.
(c) Paris.
(d) Persia.

8. What are Armenians for the Persian empire according to Usbek?
(a) It's best soldiers.
(b) It's worse citizens.
(c) It's hardest working citizens.
(d) It's worse soldiers.

9. Who does Rica visit in letter 82?
(a) A European jail.
(b) A women's retreat.
(c) Those wounded in battle.
(d) A monastery.

10. Why does Roxane send Usbek letter 150?
(a) To tell him she is killing herself.
(b) To tell him she loves him.
(c) To tell him about mistreatment in the seraglio.
(d) To tell him about the misbehaving of the other wives.

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

12. What does Nargum lament concerning the Tartars?
(a) They don't know how to read or write.
(b) They don't have good food.
(c) They don't care about slaves.
(d) They don't have a written history.

13. What does the eunuch ask Usbek in letter 93?
(a) To send him money.
(b) To come back.
(c) To bring back more eunuchs.
(d) To repudiate a wife.

14. What is Rica writing about in letter 106?
(a) University of London.
(b) University of London.
(c) University of Paris.
(d) University of Milan.

15. Who was Zachi found in bed with?
(a) A man.
(b) A slave.
(c) A eunuch.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who must work harder to be accepted in a society according to Usbek?

2. What novels shocked the monk in letter 130 more than the novels found in Europe?

3. Who writes letter 143 to Usbek?

4. Whose habit does Usbek talk about in the 100th letter?

5. In letter 126, what does the philosopher believe will cause the death of all humans?

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