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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters 93 - 99.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Usbek say in letter 19 that the white eunuch should be thankful for?
(a) Not being fired.
(b) Not being dead.
(c) Not being beaten.
(d) Not being sold.

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

3. How is the Ottoman Empire according to Usbek?
(a) Expanding.
(b) Troubled.
(c) Recovering.
(d) At war.

4. What do the wives who are not beaten believe in Nargum's letter?
(a) That they are doing good.
(b) That they are pretty.
(c) That they are not loved.
(d) That they are lucky.

5. How is Zachi and Zelide's relationship according to the 19th letter?
(a) They do not like each other.
(b) They are good friends.
(c) They are rivals.
(d) They don't know each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a person's superiority proven in Persia?

2. What does Usbek hope the Mullah can help him with?

3. Why do French women gamble, according to Usbek?

4. According to Usbek, why is the city he is in in letter 18 considered great or powerful?

5. Why does the head eunuch think he is good at buying women?

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