Candide

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Is Candide legitimate or illegitimate?
illegitimate or not legal
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Who is Candide's uncle?
a German baron
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Where does Candide grow up and live?
in the baron's castle, Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia, Germany
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Why did Candide's mother refuse to marry his father?
because his father's family tree could only be traced through 71 quarterings
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Is the baroness fat?
yes, very much so. 350 lbs.
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Who is Candide's tutor?
Pangloss
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What does Pangloss teach?
metaphysico-theologo-cosmolo-nigology
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How does Candide react to Pangloss's teachings?
with great attention and faith
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Who is Cunegonde?
the baron's daughter, and later, Candide's wife
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What does Cunegonde witness Pangloss and a wench doing?
experimental physics aka sex
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Why is Candide called Candide?
because he combines true judgement with simplicity of spirit
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What do people call the Baron?
My Lord
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What does Cunegonde do after watching Pangloss and the wench?
seeks Candide
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What did Cunegonde purposely do when she was behind the screen with Candide?
let her hankerchief fall
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Why does the Baron banish Candide?
because he kisses Cunegonde
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What town does Candide end up in after banishment?
Waldbeghofftrarbk-dikdorff
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Who finds Candide next and what is his condition?
two men, he is half dead with hunger and fatigue
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What do the two men dressed in blue ask Candide to do?
drink to the health of the king of the Bulgars.
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What do the 2 men do for Candide?
script him to serve in the Bulgar army.
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What do the 2 men say is the reason men are born?
to assist one another
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The 2 men ask Candide if he loves who?
the King of the Bulgarians
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Describe the treatment of the army Candide endures?
it is brutal. he is beaten.
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what choice do they give candide?
whether he can run the gauntlet or be executed
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why does the king of the bulars pardon candide?
hes a metaphysician
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what does candide's wounds heal in time for?
for him to fight in the war between the bulagrs and abares
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where does candide escape to next?
Holland
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what does the orator ask candide whther he supports of not
the good cause
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the orator asks candid if he believe that the _____ is the _________
pope antichrist
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how does candid respond
dont know, he wants food
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what does the orator's wife do to candids
dumps human waste on head
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who rescues him
Jacques, a kind anabaptist
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where does jacq take him
to his home in ther rug factory
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who does the beggar turn out to be
pangloss
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what does pangloss tell candid happene dat the barons castel
bulgars attacked, killed baroness, his wife, his son, raped and murdered cunegonde
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pangloss contracted what from whom
shyphilis Paquette
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why does pangloss like that he has syphilis
it leads back to a man who treavele with comolbus
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syphilis made what possible
chocolate
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candide takes pangloss to whom for treatment?
Jacques
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what does pan lose to the disease?
eye ear
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jacques hires pan as his what
bookkepper
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where does jac take cand and pan?
Lisbon, Portugal
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what happens on their way to Lisbon
a sailor falls overboard, jac rescues him but in the process dies, the sailor, pan, and ccandid survive and walk ashore
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what has just happened in lisbon
earthquake
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what does the sailor do
gets drunk, has sex with wench
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how does pan comfort the victims
telling them the quake happened for the best
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one of the officers of the Inquisition accuses Pangloss of what because an optimist cannot possibly believe in what?
hersy, original sin
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what do the authorities do to prevent futher quakes
burn people
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who do they choose why
man married his godmother, 2 others for refusing to eat bacon (Jews)
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why do they hang pan
for his opinions
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why do they flog candid
for listening with an air of approval
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what happens later that day
another eartshquake
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who rescues candid
old woman
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what does ow give him
cloths, oitment, food, drink, bed
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where does ow lead candid after 2 days
to countryhouse where he meets cunegonde
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what does cunegonde happened to her family
killed by bulgars
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a bulgar captain took cunegond after what?
he found a solier raping her
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what did the bulgar captain do with cunegonde
sold her to jew, Don Issachar
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who saw cune at mass?
grand inquisitor, who wanted to buy her
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what did the inquisitor and don agree on
inquis-4 days a week
don-3
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what made cune doubt pan's teachings
seeing him hung and candid beaten
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who told the ow to rescue candid
cunegond
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why does candid kill don at this point?
he stormed in in a jealous rage
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who else does candid kill
inquis
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cunegond, candid, and the ow journey to Cadiz. what do they bring?
3 horses, jewels
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what happens to the bodies?
inquis-buried and church service
don' thown on dunghill
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where do they stop on their way to cadiz
Avacena, on the Sierra Morena
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who stole the jewels?
a franciscan friar
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what do they sell to travel to cadiz
1 horse`
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what do they find in cadiz
troops preparing to sail to the new world
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how do they get permission to come aboard
candid shows his military experience
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ow was daughter of Pope _____ X and the princess of __________
Urban, Palestrina
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when 14, she was engaged to the prince of what
massa carrara
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who poisioned and killed the prince at their wedding
his mistress
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after the prince's death, the ow and her mother go to where
estate in Gaeta
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who do they meet along the way
pirates
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what do the pirates do to the prisoners
search all orifices for jewels, rape women
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what do the pirates intend to do with the prisoners
sell them as slaves in Morocco
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what is going on in Morocco
civil war
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when the pirates are attacked in Morocco, the ow witnesses what
her mother's murder
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when ow awakes under the tree, what does she discover
a italian eunuch trying to rape her
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the euncuh had once served in the ow's what?
mother's palace
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where does the eunuch promise to take the ow? where does he actually take her?
back to italy, Algiers
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what does the eunuch do to the ow when they arrive in Algiers?
sold her to the prince as a concubine
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what killed the prince and the eunuch in Algiers?
the plague
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where did the ow end up after being sold a few times after the deaths of the prince and eunuch?
in the hands of a Muslim military commander
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who did the muslim fight with his army just then?
russians
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what was the only thing left standing after the battle?
the commander's fort
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when the officers grew very hungry, what did they eat?
they killed and ate 2 eunuchs
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when the officers wanted to eat the women, what did they do and why?
cut off one buttock of each women because a religious leader persuaded them it was more pious and sympathetic that way
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what ended up happening to all the officers?
killed by Russians
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where were the women taken (group the ow was with)?
Moscow
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what was her first lifestyle in Moscow?
a nobleman took her as his slave and beat her for 2 years
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when did the ow escape?
after the nobleman was executed for court intrigue
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what job did the ow have after escaping the nobleman in Russia?
working at inns
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why didn't the ow ever attempt suicide?
she loved life too much
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what does she tell candide and cunegonde to do after she completes her story?
tell it to everyone on the ship, ask them about their lives
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where do they doc?
Buenos Aires
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who do they meet once getting to Buenos Aires?
Don Fernando d'ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdoes y Souza
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what does Fernando ask cunegonde once candide leaves?
to marry him
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what does the ow advise cunegonde to do regarding fernando's proposal?
she advises her to accept, b/c fernando could make her and candide's fortunes