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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main topic of letter 34?
(a) Paris water systems.
(b) Paris churches.
(c) Paris coffee houses.
(d) Paris aristocracy.

2. What is the main topic of letter 67?
(a) Women.
(b) Marriage.
(c) The law.
(d) God.

3. In the 1st letter, what is Usbek trying to explain?
(a) His desire to learn about other places.
(b) His desire to settle down.
(c) His desire to meet Rustan.
(d) His desire to have a bigger harem.

4. What does Rustan write to Usbek about the community's view on Usbek's trip?
(a) The community is talking badly about Usbek.
(b) The community is waiting for more of his stories.
(c) The community does not know he left.
(d) The community is indifferent.

5. What activities can Usbek's wives do in his absence?
(a) Nothing; they have to be confined at all time.
(b) Only horseback riding.
(c) Only immoral activities.
(d) Any moral and accepted activities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Usbek's house located?

2. What does Usbek use to appeal to his wives to behave?

3. How did the society in letters 10 to 14 fare after it stabilized?

4. What happened to Zachi and her servant according to letter 45?

5. What is the usual punishment for the eunuch's crime according to letter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Pharan complaining in letter 40?

2. Why do women gamble in France according to Usbek?

3. What is affluence based on in Paris according to Rica?

4. What happened to Roxanne according to letter 150?

5. What does Nargum lament in letter 79?

6. What conclusion does Rica send to Ibben concerning the difference between men of different cultures?

7. What does the Mullah suggest Usbek do in his letter?

8. What is powerless according to Rica in Letter 71 and why?

9. What quality does Rica praise in a man according to supplementary letter 7?

10. What does Usbek encourage the eunuch to do according to letter 1?

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