Flashcards for English - Candide and Tartuffe

Question 1

Who said, “Do you believe that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?”?

Answer 1

Martin

Question 2

Who said, “I am the daughter of Pope Urban X, and of the Princess of Palestrina.”?

Answer 2

the old woman

Question 3

Who said, “Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbor”?

Answer 3

Cacambo reasons with them in their own language

Question 4

Who said, “It was love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe”?

Answer 4

Pangloss

Question 5

According to Baker, Orgon is a model of what?

Answer 5

bad kingship

Question 6

Candide meets an Anabaptist who does what?

Answer 6

Makes him his apprentice

Question 7

Dorine believes all of the following about Mariane EXCEPT: A:she’s poorly matched for Tartuffe, B:she’s above Tartuffe socially, C: she’d be justified in having an affair while married, D: she’s haughty and judgmental

Answer 7

D, that she’s haughty and judgmental

Question 8

Examples of Voltaire attacking the Church.

Answer 8

Chapter 15: Father Croust and clergy portrayed as homosexual; Cunégonde’s jewels stolen by a Franciscan monk in Buenos Aires; Auto-da-fe: exaggeration of the intolerance and hypocrisy of the Spanish Inquisition/church

Question 9

For nearly every death, there is a what? A funeral, B memorial, C wake, D resurrection, E chapter

Answer 9

D, resurrection

Question 10

How do Candide and Cacambo escape from the Biglugs?

Answer 10

Cacambo reasons with them in their own language

Question 11

How does Candide finally find happiness?

Answer 11

by gardening

Question 12

How does Candide respond to the two men in Cunégonde’s life?

Answer 12

He stabs them with his sword

Question 13

How does Martin become Candide’s traveling companion?

Answer 13

He wins Candide’s contest for the most unhappy man

Question 14

How does Martin’s view of the world and world order differ from Pangloss?

Answer 14

Pessimist: contrast to Pangloss’s optimism

Question 15

How does the philosophy of Rousseau fit into Candide?

Answer 15

Rousseau believed that man in nature was inherently good: if you put man in the wild, he’ll be peaceful and pure: Voltaire disagrees: even in Eldorado, Candide and Cacambo get tired of it and leave. If man’s inherent goodness were to exist, it would have to be in complete isolation, like in Eldorado, adn even then man would tire of it and get restless.

Question 16

How is Cleante related to Orgon?

Answer 16

He’s his brother-in-law

Question 17

In Tartuffe’s eyes, sin only offends heaven when what?

Answer 17

when sin is committed in full view of others

Question 18

In which city are Martin and Candid arrested for being “suspicious strangers?”

Answer 18

Paris

Question 19

Is Molière directly attacking religion?

Answer 19

Not really, just religious hypocrisy.

Question 20

Is Tartuffe a comedy or a satire?

Answer 20

BOTH! WAHOO! EXCITING!

Question 21

Of what religious affiliation is Martin?

Answer 21

Manichean

Question 22

On what do Martin and Candide wager in Venice?

Answer 22

that Cacambo will fulfil his mission

Question 24

The beggar in Holland turns out to be who?

Answer 24

Pangloss

Question 25

There are many Biblical allusions in Candide. Give an example.

Answer 25

Eden: Baron thunder-ten-Tronckh’s castle

Question 26

There are many symbols in Candide. Give at least two and explain.

Answer 26

Eldorado (utopia, how it doesn't work); garden (the life/world that you have, which you should tend instead of chasing utopia)

Question 27

Upon leaving Orgon's house, what does Madame Perenelle do?

Answer 27

Admonishes everope except Tartuffe

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Gardening

Question 29

What actually happens to Cunégonde after the Bulgarian soldiers rape her?

Answer 29

She is wounded and taken in by a bulgarian captain

Question 30

What disaster happens in Lisbon?

Answer 30

an earthquake

Question 31

What disease does Pangloss contract?

Answer 31

syphilis

Question 32

What do the officers that Tartuffe brought to Orgon's house do?

Answer 32

arrest Tartuffe for fraudery

Question 33

What do the two meen at the door of the inn offer a nearly-starved Candide?

Answer 33

a place in the army

Question 34

What does Candide mean by "we must tend our garden?"

Answer 34

That it's no use speculating about what could or couldn't happen or would or wouldn't be the best world: you just have to stop worrying and work on improving what you already have.

Question 35

What does Cunégonde do to improve her financial situation?

Answer 35

Marries a rich governor

Question 36

What does Cunégonde see Pangloss doing?

Answer 36

sleeping with Paquette, the maid

Question 37

What does Martin believe?

Answer 37

that men are basically greedy and hypocritical

Question 38

What does Pangloss do that distracts him and Candide?

Answer 38

philosophize

Question 39

What does Tartuffe want Elmire to do?

Answer 39

have a secret affair with him

Question 40

What happens on the way to Lisbon?

Answer 40

Candide and his companions get shipwrecked

Question 41

What happens to Candide after he's kicked out of the Baron's castle?

Answer 41

He's drafted into the Bulgarian army

Question 42

What happens when Orgon returns home?

Answer 42

He defends Tartuffe and believes he can do no wrong

Question 43

What is an auto-da-fe, and what is its significance in Candide?

Answer 43

"act of faith" used by the Church to execute heretics during the Spanish Inquisition: public event: used by Voltaire as an attack on the Church, since Pangloss is hanged simply because he espouses optimism, and Candide is flogged for listening

Question 44

What is Candide's driving force?

Answer 44

love

Question 45

What is consistently depicted as corrupting and morally bankrupt?

Answer 45

religion

Question 46

What is Jacques' religious affiliation?

Answer 46

Anabaptist

Question 47

What is optimism?

Answer 47

theory that all is for the greater good, best of all possible worlds

Question 48

What is Pangloss's favorite saying?

Answer 48

All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Question 49

What is Pangloss's main thesis in his philosophical view of the world? Give one example of how Voltaire mocks it.

Answer 49

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds: contradicition is the earthquake: even as Candide is nearly crushed beneath ruins, asking for help, Pangloss just extemporizes on how good the earthquake is

Question 50

What is portrayed as meaningless?

Answer 50

status derived from lineage

Question 51

What is the hidden country into which Candide and Cacambo stubmel?

Answer 51

Eldorado

Question 52

What precious animal does Vanderdendur steal from Candide?

Answer 52

A sheep laden with jewels

Question 53

What punishment does Candide choose after his arrest?

Answer 53

Running the gauntlet through the whole regimen

Question 54

What ultimately happens to the baron and his wife?

Answer 54

they are killed

Question 55

What's in Orgon's strongbox?

Answer 55

information about his friend, an exile, that could damage his reputation and his friend's safety

Question 56

What's ironic about Dorine?

Answer 56

She's just a servant girl, but she's very wise.

Question 57

When does the Anabaptist (Jacques) die?

Answer 57

rescuing the sailor

Question 58

Where does Candide find Pangloss and the baron?

Answer 58

In a Turkish chain gang

Question 59

Where does Candide live at the beginning of the story?

Answer 59

Westphalia

Question 60

Which best describes Candide’s experience in the army?

Answer 60

He's abused and almost executed

Question 61

Which enlightenment thinker is Pangloss's character meant to satirize?

Answer 61

Liebniz

Question 62

Which of the following does Eldorado have? A prisons, B schools, C churches, D bawdy houses

Answer 62

B, schools

Question 63

Who said, "I deeply love Miss Cunégonde."?

Answer 63

Candide

Question 64

Whom does the Jesuit commander turn out to be?

Answer 64

Cunégonde's brother, the new Baron

Question 65

Why are there no courts or prisons in Eldorado?

Answer 65

Citizens never break the laws there

Question 66

Why does Candide flee after landing in Buenos Aireas?

Answer 66

The Spanish police are seeking Candide

Question 67

Why does Candide kill the Revered Father Commander, who's also the baron's son?

Answer 67

The Commander hit him in the face

Question 68

Why does Dr. Pangloss receive a sentence of execution?

Answer 68

For being a heretic

Question 69

Why does Monsiuer Loyal appear at the house?

Answer 69

to evict Orgon

Question 70

Why does Voltaire devote two chapters to the old woman's story?

Answer 70

To carefully detail her characters

Question 71

Why is Candide expelled from the baron's castle?

Answer 71

for kissing Cunégonde

Question 72

Why is Damis concerned with Marian's and Valere's wedding?

Answer 72

He wants to court Valere's sister

Question 73

Why is the English admiral executed?

Answer 73

For fighting too prudently