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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 does Cunegonde talk about on the way to Buenos Aires?
(a) Her fortune.
(b) Her luck.
(c) Her hardships.
(d) The future.

2. Who is the Commandant?
(a) Cunégonde's brother.
(b) Candide's father.
(c) The old woman's son.
(d) Cacambo's uncle.

3. How many people die in the war between the Bulgars and the Avars?
(a) Sixty.
(b) One million.
(c) 30,000.
(d) One hundred.

4. What town do Candide, Cunégonde, and the old woman reach before anyone realizes Mr. Issachar and the Grand Inquisitor are dead?
(a) Avacena.
(b) Cadiz.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Sevilla.

5. Who does the old lady pray to for Candide's health?
(a) Our Lady of Atocha.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Saint Anthony of Padua.
(d) Saint James of Compostella.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the old woman's parents?

2. What does Candide sell on the old woman's advice?

3. What faith is Jacques?

4. Who is rumored to be the son of the Baron's sister and a gentleman from the village?

5. How does the old woman describe the location where she was raised?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Candide sees when he walks through a village raided by the Bulgarians.

2. Why is the fleet preparing to go to the New World?

3. When Martin and Candide land in Portsmouth, England, what do they witness? How does this affect Candide?

4. What happens when Candide realizes that he won't see Cunégonde again?

5. What happens to give Candide a good response to Martin's pessimism in Chapter 20?

6. How does Candide respond when Cunegonde reminds him of his promise to marry her? Why?

7. What does Candide's new traveling companion, Martin, have to say about the condition of the world as he sees it?

8. What is the story of the death of James, the Anabaptist?

9. What philosophical background does Martin claim and how does he describe this perspective?

10. On the ship to Buenos Aires, about what does Cunégonde complain and how does the old woman respond?

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