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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Jacques give Candide?
(a) 50 florins.
(b) Twenty florins.
(c) 100 florins.
(d) Two florins.

2. Which of the following is not a reason that Candide kills the two monkeys who are chasing the girls?
(a) To protect the women.
(b) To absolve the murder of The Grand Inquisitor.
(c) To absolve the murder of Mr. Issachar.
(d) To absolve the murder of Cunégonde's brother.

3. How does the man who found the old woman and spoke her language treat her?
(a) He brings her to her palace in Italy.
(b) He stabs her and then she escapes.
(c) He says he will help her and then kills her.
(d) He says he will take her to Italy but sells her instead.

4. Why do the people who captured and bound Candide and Cacambo suspect that Candide is a Jesuit?
(a) Because he begins to pray when he is captured.
(b) Because he speaks the language of the Jesuits.
(c) Because he is still wearing the Commandant's robe.
(d) Because he has a necklace with a cross.

5. What do Candide and Martin see swimming in the water and rescue?
(a) Pirates.
(b) Eels.
(c) Horses.
(d) Candide's sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Candide meets two men in the town of Waldberghofftrarbk-dikdorff. To whom do they drink?

2. Why must Cacambo go to Buenos Aires?

3. What are the inhabitants of Eldorado prohibited from doing?

4. Why are Candide and Pangloss arrested in Portugal?

5. Who does the Commandant of the Jesuit military turn out to be?

(see the answer key)

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