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1. Why is Candide expelled from the baron's castle?

(A) For arguing with Pangloss

(B) For kissing Cunégonde

(D) For poaching on the baron's lands

2. What is Jacques' religious affiliation?

(A) Anabaptist

(B) Catholic

(D) Jewish

3. Which of the old woman's body parts was eaten by soldiers in a besieged fort?

(A) Her arm

(B) Her breast

(D) Her buttock

4. Whom does the Jesuit commander turn out to be?

(A) Pangloss

(B) Cunégonde's brother, the baron

(D) Cunégonde's ex-lover

5. What is the name of the hidden country into which Candide and Cacambo stumble?

(A) Eldorado

(B) Shangri-la

(D) Panglea

6. Which of the following institutions does the abovementioned country have?

(A) Prisons

(B) Schools

(D) Bawdy houses

7. Which Enlightenment thinker is Pangloss's character meant to satirize?

(A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(B) Blaise Pascal

(D) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

8. How do Candide and Cacambo escape from the Biglugs?

(A) Candide offers them money

(B) Cacambo reasons with them in their own language

(D) Candide and Cacambo claim to have syphilis

9. What precious animal does Vanderdendur steal from Candide?

(A) A prize-winning racehorse

(B) A sheep laden with jewels

(D) A goose that lays golden eggs

10. Of what religious affiliation is Martin?

(A) Atheist

(B) Buddhist

(D) Zoroastrian

11. Why is the English admiral executed?

(A) For fighting too prudently

(B) For betraying state secrets

(D) For being a homosexual

12. With whom did Voltaire eventually share a tomb?

(A) Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

(B) Rene Descartes

(D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

13. Which of the following authors does Count Pococurante not disparage?

(A) Homer

(B) Milton

(D) Shakespeare

14. Where does Candide find Pangloss and the baron?

(A) In a Turkish brothel

(B) At a Christian mission in Turkey

(D) In a Turkish chain gang

15. What activity brings Candide pleasure at the end of the novel?

(A) Carpentry

(B) Gardening

(D) Fencing

16. About what event did Voltaire write a long poem?

(A) The Lisbon earthquake of 1755

(B) The execution of John Byng

(D) The Seven Years' War

17. The Enlightenment is also known as what?

(A) The Age of Incredulity

(B) The Technology Age

(D) The Renaissance

18. Why will the baron not allow Candide to marry Cunégonde?

(A) Because Candide is a commoner

(B) Because Candide ran the baron through with his sword

(D) Because the baron suspects that Candide is Jewish

19. Who owns the unfortunate slave whom Candide encounters in Surinam?

(A) Don Fernando

(B) The Pope

(D) Vanderdendur

20. Cunégonde has been the mistress of all of the following characters except one. Which one?

(A) Don Isaachar

(B) Cacambo

(D) The Bulgar officer

21. In which city are Martin and Candide arrested for being “suspicious strangers”?

(A) Venice

(B) Lisbon

(D) Paris

22. Which character maintains that this is “the best of all possible worlds”?

(A) Martin

(B) Pangloss

(D) Jacques

23. To which of the following is Pangloss not subjected?

(A) Cannibalism

(B) Syphilis

(D) Dissection

24. Which character is dead at the end of the novel?

(A) Cunégonde

(B) Jacques

(D) Pangloss

25. What does Candide do to the deposed king Theodore of Corsica?

(A) Makes him his slave

(B) Gives him a diamond

(D) Uses him as a social crutch

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