Dr. Prinsky

Humn. 2002

Test on Voltaire's Candide

1. Voltaire's Candide is an example of which literature? (a) Roman (b) Italian (c) French (d) Spanish (e) English

2. Voltaire's Candide was published in the: (a) 1690's (b) 1750's (c) 1810's (d) 1870's

3. As pointed out in Hugo-Spacks' introduction in NAWM, Candide is an attack on all the following except which one? (a) philosophical optimism (b) the artificial order of fiction (c) human complacency (d) any utopian ideal

4. As pointed out in Hugo-Spacks' introduction in NAWM, and lecture, the protagonist or central character of Candide is one who: (a) does not change (b) gradually learns (c) is too proud (d) becomes cruel

5. As pointed out in lecture, some humorous passages, as well as the multiplicity of incidents, countries, characters, and violent actions, seem to have a parallel in the visual arts of: (a) gothic (b) mannerist (c) rococo (d) neoclassicism

6. As pointed out in lecture, in the book's overall length, its chapters' length, and in its prose style, Candide exemplifies the Neoclassical component of the arts: (a) restraint (b) ornateness (c) tenebrism (d) complexity

7. As pointed out in lecture, the overall structure or organization of Candide has the facet of Neoclassical art of: (a) asymmetry (b) pastel colors (c) limited space (d) symmetry

8. As pointed out in lecture, in overall structure, Candide parallels in music: (a) lieder form (b) sonata-allegro form (c) toccata form (d) concerto grosso form

9. As pointed out in lecture, the reoccurrence of certain characters, or types of events (e.g., fainting), or types of things (e.g., veils), parallels in Classical music: (a) cadenzas (b) minuets (c) motifs (d) codas

10. As pointed out in lecture, Voltaire's Candide was actually used as the basis of a modern opera and subsequent broadway show based on the music of modern American composer: (a) Charles Ives (b) Aaron Copland (c) Philip Glass (d) Elmer Bernstein

11. In Ch. 1 of Candide, the description of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronck's castle and his routine primarily mocks German: (a) militarism (b) ethnocentrism (c) lack of family feeling (d) lavish overspending

12. In Ch. 2, all the following implied defects are satirized of Germans, except which one: (a) language (b) regimentation (c) laziness (d) stupidity

13. In Ch. 3, in Candide's thinking about why he should desert to Holland, Voltaire uses for satire the component in logic: (a) proof (b) material fallacy (c) induction (d) enthymeme (e) Hollandaise (f) Dutch chocolate (g) Dutch oven (h) Dutch uncle (i) Dutch cleanser (j) Dutchboy paint

14. In Ch. 3, the baptism Candide receives suggests: (a) his escape from the army to a truly welcoming society (b) the omnipresence of intolerance and inhumanity (c) the hero's need for true religion (d) the greater compassion of women than men

15. In Ch. 4, the emphatic report on Dr. Pangloss's physiology symbolically satirizes Pangloss's: (a) extreme gluttony (b) secretiveness (c) defective perception (d) chastity

16. In Ch. 5, on the trip taken by Candide, Dr. Pangloss, and the Anabaptist, the latter's death shows how: (a) one kind act can inspire another (b) Voltaire stops to dwell on long, detailed poignant descriptions of such pathetic incidents (c) religion may lead to cowardly actions (d) life's reversals cause the ultimate opposite of his religious denomination

17. In Ch. 6, in the account of the arrest of Candide and Dr. Pangloss, execution of Dr. Pangloss, and the whipping of Candide all at the auto-da-fe in Lisbon, Voltaire mainly satirizes: (a) Roman Catholicism (b) lack of corporal punishment in French justice (c) typical slowness of legal machinery (d) Deism

18. In Ch. 7, when Candide and Cunegonde are reunited (for the first time) and discuss the physical sufferings and injuries each has suffered, ironically they: (a) each become sexually aroused (b) realize they masochistically enjoy physical pain (c) each decide to call a physician for the other (d) wish they'd never been born

19. In Ch. 8, Cunegonde's story of the destruction of her castle in the war, we learn that she is rescued from repeated rape when the Bulgar soldier is killed by a Bulgar army captain because of the latter's: (a) humanitarian compassion (b) concern about societal law and order (c) insulted pride (d) undemocratic belief that only officers should enjoy themselves

20. In Ch. 9 (Cunegonde, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and Don Issachar, all at Cunegonde's hideaway), the description of what goes through Candide's mind before he assaults the Grand Inquisitor suggests: (a) natural swift and precise thought when not burdened by academic philosophy (b) natural right instinctive actions when devoid of thought or thinking (c) long meditation being able to prevent disastrously wrong action (d) the need to be especially considerate before acting against a man of God

21. In Ch. 11, when the Old Woman tells her story of how she suffered her physical injury she's repeatedly referred to, she describes a fight at a seaport that has as one main satiric target: (a) the British Navy (b) myths about sea serpents (c) French commercialism (d) the Islamic religion

22. In Ch. 12, when the old woman accompanying Candide and Cunegonde on the ship concludes her story of what happened to her at the besieged fort (relative to the twenty janizaries), there recurs a vivid symbol of humanity's barbarity in: (a) whipping (b) sexual perversion (c) cannibalism (d) burning holy books

23. In Ch. 13, the parting of Candide and Cunegonde symbolically suggests about the New World that it: (a) is the same as the Old World because of its inhabitants (b) can be a new departure in one human being's consideration for another (c) will not allow tyrannizing of the powerful over the powerless (d) favors indigenous inhabitants at the expense of those of European heritage

24. Chs. 14, 16, and 17-18 have different, emphatic versions of the recurrent, sometimes inverted, symbol of the: (a) church nave (b) valley of dry bones (Ezekiel) (c) garden of Eden (d) Aeolian harp

25. In Chs. 14-15 (and elsewhere), the reappearance of the Baron, as of Cunegonde and of Pangloss, has as one of the book's cumulative suggestions about humanity, its: (a) perseverance (b) inconsistency (c) love of magician's illusions (d) inclination to escape

26. In Ch. 16, Candide and Cacambo are captured by cannibals named in the untranslated text of Voltaire "Oreillons," translated in the Adams translation in NAWM as "Biglugs" but in all five other translations as just "Oreillons." But the name (as notes to one translation make clear) signifies "big ears"; with reference to the chapter, the name of the primitive, natural men symbolizes how they: (a) rationally listen to their prisoners' explanations before acting (b) love to hear all victims scream with pain (c) enjoy talking and gossiping more than acting (d) surprisingly are lovers of classical music

27. In Chs. 17-18, Voltaire's description of El Dorado parallels similar lengthy depictions in literature, from Homer's Odyssey through modern times, of a/an: (a) democracy (b) empire (c) religion (d) utopia

28. In Ch. 19, the negro that Candide and Cacambo encounter just outside Surinam exemplifies Voltaire's theme of: (a) equal opportunity in the New World (b) criticism of racism (c) the improving effect of Christianity on society (d) approval of European colonialism

29. In Chs. 19-21, the new companion that Candide befriends represents the dark view of human nature to be found (at least in Voltaire's view), as suggested by his name, in: (a) Lutheranism (b) Anglicanism (c) Episcopalianism (d) Anabaptism

30. In Ch. 22, when Candide donates his El Dorado sheep to the academy of science in Bordeaux, the academy holds a contest, whose winner provides the formula (A + B - C)/Z to demonstrate that the sheep ought to be red and die of sheep rot. Here Voltaire: (a) praises Newtonian mathematics and physics (b) implies the importance of algebra in science (c) shows French culture superior to that of other nations (d) condemns the use of abstract mathematics too detached from the physical materials of life

31. In Ch. 23, Voltaire primarily satirizes the relationship of the military to: (a) art (b) economics (c) bureaucracy (d) technology

32. In Ch. 24, Candide in Venice meets Paquette, former maid of Baron Thunder-Ten-Tronckh's household, whose experience of men, like Cunegonde's, suggests that men are mostly like which of the following from Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? (a) the Knight (b) the Friar (c) the Oxford Student (d) the Plowman

33. In Ch. 25, when Candide and Martin have dinner with Lord Pococurante in Venice, Pococurante in his remarks about literature says that Homer's works (the Iliad, and to some extent the Odyssey): (a) must be read in the original Greek, to be best understood (b) lack enough Christian values (c) are boringly repetitive (d) need to be studied before reading Roman literature

34. In Ch. 26, Candide's group's encounter with the six kings helps convey the concept of the power in politics (from Europe to America) of: (a) the Wheel of Fortune (b) voting fraud (c) bribery from commercial special interests (d) an educated electorate

35. In Ch. 27, one of anti-fairytale components of Candide is the revelation of the Princess's: (a) new shrewish personality (b) job as super successful merchant (c) expertise in witchcraft and black magic (d) loss of her beauty

36. In Ch. 28, the young Baron and Pangloss explain how although escaping apparent deaths they wound up back in slave galleys, unwittingly suggesting in their stories that each one has again succumbed to the sin of: (a) lust (b) anger (c) envy (d) sloth

37. The unexpected conflict in Ch. 29 between Candide and Cunegonde's brother loops or spirals back to Chs. 1 and 15, in satirizing: (a) Germanic gluttony (b) American boorishness (c) Italian apathy (d) European aristocratic pride

38. In Ch. 29, Candide demonstrates new maturity, relative to Cunegonde's brother, by: (a) enacting quick physical retribution (b) joining the brother in the brother's plans (c) rejecting violence (d) immediately incorporating the brother into Candide's own commune

39. In the novel's last few chapters, satiric variations of the fairytale by Voltaire occur in all the following except which one in Candide's marriage to Cunegonde: (a) his hesitation because she's lost her looks (b) his stubbornness because he was forbidden to do it (c) his being pressured into it by his fiancée (d) his firm decision to make the ceremony Islamic rather than Christian

40. The most famous sentence of Candide, repeated in the last chapter, Ch. 30, and which closes the book is: (a) "Man must suffer to be wise" (b) "One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT" (c) "We must cultivate our garden" (d) "I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice that they will not presume to appear in my sight"

41. Candide's most famous sentence, from Ch. 30, conveys an emphasis on all the following except which one: (a) pragmatism (b) utilitarianism (c) humility (d) perseverance (e) commerce