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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who writes letter 139 to Usbek?
(a) Zachi.
(b) Narsit.
(c) The head eunuch.
(d) Zelis.

4. What does the rich man wish in letter 126?
(a) To have wisdom.
(b) To have land.
(c) To have titles.
(d) To have an education.

5. Who was the woman in letter 93 purchased for?
(a) Usbek's friend.
(b) Usbek's sister.
(c) Usbek's brother.
(d) Usbek's father.

6. What letter does Rica say is causing confusion at the university he visits in letter 106?
(a) W.
(b) G.
(c) Q.
(d) B.

7. What does Nargum write about the Tartars to Usbek?
(a) Their food.
(b) Their women.
(c) Their power.
(d) Their slaves.

8. What does Rica call those who mind everyone's business but their own?
(a) Owners.
(b) Minders.
(c) Idiots.
(d) Busybodies.

9. What would the French rather copy than create according to Rica in letter 97?
(a) Gold.
(b) Games.
(c) Laws.
(d) Fashion.

10. Whose lover was killed by the eunuchs in letter 149?
(a) Fatme's.
(b) Roxane's.
(c) Zelis'.
(d) Zachi's.

11. Whose death is reported to Usbek in letter 141?
(a) The head eunuch.
(b) Roxane.
(c) Narsit.
(d) Zachi.

12. Why does Usbek think the Muslims have not been able to grow like the Jews have?
(a) Muslims have too many wives.
(b) Muslims have enough slave workers.
(c) Muslims only see themselves on the way to heaven.
(d) Muslims don't need a big army.

13. Who entered in the house occupied by Usbek's wives during the time they spent in the country?
(a) Friends.
(b) Men.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Merchants.

14. Whose habit does Usbek talk about in the 100th letter?
(a) French courtesans.
(b) Italian merchants.
(c) French princes.
(d) Persian princes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rica writing about in letter 106?

2. Why does the man in Usbek's story in letter 98 claim to always be right?

3. Who gives Usbek the information in letter 100?

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

5. What are Armenians for the Persian empire according to Usbek?

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