Writing Homework Help

1. Where does the action of the story happen in Candide?

all over the place

Dublin

Germany

only in Lisbon

2. Who is the central, main character in Voltaire’s Candide?

a young man

Pangloss, the philosophe

Cacambo

Voltaire himself

3. In Chapter 4 of Candide the one-eyed Dr. Pangloss describes his illness as what?

very pleasant

indispensably necessary

painful as hell

despicably grotesque

4. Which answer below is the best definition of satire?

A remark that seems like praise but is really which is really an insult; it generally involves malice, the desire to put someone down.

The exposure of the vices or follies of an individual, a group, an institution, an idea, a society, etc., usually with a view to correcting it.

The discrepancy between what is said and what is meant, what is said and what is done, what is expected or intended and what happens, what is meant or said and what others understand, or two or more incongruous objects, actions, persons juxtaposed.

Utter sarcasm which is not to be taken seriously

5. Voltaire’s Candide is

a novel

a short story

an essay

a lengthy pla