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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rica visit according to letter 127 to 131?
(a) A Catholic library.
(b) A Protestant library.
(c) A Muslim library.
(d) A Roman library.

3. What does the western woman talking to Rica not like about Persian culture?
(a) The food.
(b) The seraglio.
(c) The philosophy.
(d) The literature.

4. According to Rica in letter 96, what changes quickly in France?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Women.
(d) Kings.

5. What is the quality that keeps people from fearing each other according to Usbek?
(a) Strength.
(b) Love.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Usbek think of inhabited countries?

2. What are the topics of letters 87 and 88?

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

4. What is the main question asked by letter 114?

5. What does Nargum write about the Tartars to Usbek?

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