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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Candide ask to be shot in the head?
(a) There are 2,000 men in the regiment to give 36 lashes each.
(b) There is no hope for him to escape the army.
(c) He saw someone hanged and does not want that.
(d) He says it as a joke not believing they will do it.

2. What does Candide's tutor teach the children?
(a) The meek will inherit the earth.
(b) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
(c) There is no effect without a cause.
(d) Love is patient.

3. What does Candide give the beggar when he sees him on the street?
(a) A slap in the face.
(b) The two coins Jacques gave him.
(c) A job.
(d) A piece of bread.

4. What happens to the Anabaptist in Chapter 5?
(a) His throat is cut.
(b) He drowns.
(c) He is sold as a slave.
(d) He dies of the plague.

5. After seeing the Bulgarian destruction in Avare, what does Candide see next?
(a) Pangloss teaching Bulgarina soldiers.
(b) The moon rise over the Abarian mountains.
(c) The Abarian destruction of a Bulgarian village.
(d) Cunegonde walking down the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times does Candide make it through the gauntlet?

2. What does Candide find in the village of Avare?

3. What does the Baroness do to Cunégonde after Candide is expelled from the castle?

4. Who offers Candide food, two coins, a place to stay, and a job in Chapter 3?

5. What is the setting of the first chapter?

(see the answer key)

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