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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nargum lament concerning the Tartars?
(a) They don't know how to read or write.
(b) They don't have a written history.
(c) They don't care about slaves.
(d) They don't have good food.

2. What does Usbek think of the rituals intended to pacify the gods?
(a) Boring.
(b) Beneficial.
(c) Useless.
(d) Necessary.

3. What does the woman killed by her husband in the story in letter 135 do to her husband as retribution?
(a) She sends a woman to kill him.
(b) She sends a man to turn him into a eunuch.
(c) She sends a ghost to torment him.
(d) She sends a double to replace him in the seraglio.

4. What does Usbek think of inhabited countries?
(a) They should be left that way.
(b) They should be used for farming.
(c) They should be used by slaves.
(d) They should be populated.

5. Why does the man in Usbek's story in letter 98 claim to always be right?
(a) He was enlightened by the Holy Spirit.
(b) He is highly educated.
(c) He travels frequently.
(d) He is rich.

6. What does Rica ridicule in letter 80?
(a) European fashion.
(b) European communication.
(c) European women.
(d) European men.

7. Who does Usbek give authority over the women in the seraglio in letter 146?
(a) Roxane.
(b) Solim.
(c) Narsit.
(d) Zachi.

8. What novels shocked the monk in letter 130 more than the novels found in Europe?
(a) Novels from the Americas.
(b) Novels from India.
(c) Novels from Persia.
(d) Novels from China.

9. Who was the woman in letter 93 purchased for?
(a) Usbek's sister.
(b) Usbek's brother.
(c) Usbek's friend.
(d) Usbek's father.

10. In letter 93, where is the woman from whom the head women eunuch purchases?
(a) Paris.
(b) Visapor.
(c) Persepolis.
(d) Jerusalem.

11. What does Nargum wonder about the Tartar?
(a) If they accomplished more than people know.
(b) If they had slaves.
(c) If they cared about the condition of women.
(d) If they used horses.

12. Whose habit does Usbek talk about in the 100th letter?
(a) Persian princes.
(b) French princes.
(c) Italian merchants.
(d) French courtesans.

13. What is the new king's biggest challenge according to Rica in letter 104?
(a) Whether to declare war on England or Spain.
(b) Whether to marry a princess from Italy or Persia.
(c) Whether to take advice from his mistress or priest.
(d) Whether or not to travel to Avignon or Lyon.

14. In who does Usbek confide about his fear about what his happening to his wives?
(a) The sultan.
(b) Nessir.
(c) The Grand Vizir.
(d) Narsit.

15. What happens to the woman killed by her husband in the story in letter 135?
(a) She enjoys great pleasures goes to heaven.
(b) She is reincarnated.
(c) She is taken as a slave in heaven.
(d) She goes to hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ubsek amazed with according to letter 95 to Ibben?

2. What does Rica write about in letter 120?

3. According to Usbek, what choice do the tax laws leave men to choose between?

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

5. What is Rica writing about in letter 106?

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