In the country of westphalia, in the castle of the most noble baron of thunder-ten-tronckh, lived a youth whom nature had endowed with a most sweet disposition. his face was the true index of his mind. he had a solid judgment joined to the most unaffected simplicity; and hence, i presume, he had his name of candide. the old servants of the house suspected him to have been the son of the baron's sister, by a very good sort of a gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady refused to marry, because he could produce no more than threescore and eleven quarterings in his arms; the rest of the genealogical tree belonging to the family having been lost through the injuries of time.

—from candide by voltaire

1. of which genre is candide an example?

a. autobiography

b. satire

c. epic

d. prose poem

2. which words best describe the tone of this selection?

a. mocking and matter-of-fact

b. serious and forbidding

c. earnest and respectful

d. informal and friendly

Choose the letter of the sentence in which the word is incorrect. however good the intentions, ethenasia is extremely controversial. the lawyers strong statement supporting euthanasia won the sympathy of the jury. her euthanasia for sailing led to a year long yachting trip.

Which sentence is an example of objective third person writing that could be found in a scientific essay

Time remaining 59: 46 which central idea should be included in a paraphrase of this excerpt? read the excerpt from the odyssey. out to sea again! ' my men were mutinous, fools, on stores of wine. sheep after sheep they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle, feasting.-while fugitives went inland, running to call to arms the main force of cicones this was an army, trained to fight on horseback or, where the ground required, on foot. they came with dawn over that terrain like the leaves and blades of spring. so doom appeared to us, dark word of zeus for us, our evil days. the forces sent by cicones to fight odysseus and his men arrived during the early morning hours. odysseus and his men feasted on the animals they slaughtered while on the island of cicones the forces sent by cicones to stop the plundering of odysseus and his men were skilled and powerful odysseus views the forces sent by cicones as punishment from the greek god zeus. mark this and retum save and exit save and exit next sub subunit