French Enlightenment Satirical Novel - Candide Or Optimism, Voltaire

Question 1

___ (Candide), ejected from the earthly paradise wandered for a long time without l mowing where he was going, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, and gazing back frequently on the most beautiful of castles which contained the most beautiful of Baron’s daughters

Answer 1

Voltaire

Question 2

Ask every passenger on this ship to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who has not often cursed the day of his birth, who has not often told himself that he is the most miserable of men, then you may throw me overboard head first.

Answer 2

The old woman

Question 3

Oh Pangloss! Pangloss! How happy you would be, if you hadn’t been hanged.

Answer 3

Candide speaking to Cunegonde’s long-lost brother

Question 4

Indeed, the law of nature teaches us to kill our neighbor, and that’s how men behave the whole world over.

Answer 4

Cacambo to the Biglugs and Candide

Question 5

If the truth must be told, the lobby was only decorated with rubies and emeralds; but the patterns in which they were arranged atoned for the extreme simplicity

Answer 5

Voltaire
- Candide and cacambo going into to the old man’s house in El Dorado

Question 6

That is very well put, said ___, but we must cultivate our garden

Answer 6

Candide