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Indigenous nations were promised    A. Their way of life would continue as before.  B. They were to assimilate into Spanish culture.    C. Europeans were seeking peaceful relations.       D. A fair share of all discovered wealth and gentle acculturation into colonial life.

Beside’s blood lineage, Spanish colonial America also used the law and social/economic status to structure their society.

By the end of the story, she is “remarkably ugly,” but a good pastry chef. 

His real name is Don Fernando d’Ibarra y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza; the Old Woman tells Cunegonde to marry him.

They are shot by Candide and wept over by two naked women.

This former prostitute takes up embroidery at the end of Candide.

Candide kills him immediately after slaying Don Issachar.

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;      All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see;    All Discord, Harmony not understood;    All partial Evil, universal Good:    And, spite of Pride, in erring Reason’s spite,    One truth is clear: WHATEVER IS, IS RIGHT

They kidnap Candide because he is “five feet five inches tall; ultimately, they flog Candide until he is at the point of death.

Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Candide (4-6 good sentences):  If this is the best of all possible, worlds, what are the others like?  The flogging is not so bad, I was flogged by the Bulgars.  But oh my dear Pangloss, greatest of all philosophers, was it necessary for me to watch you being hanged, for no reason that I can see?  Oh my dear Anabaptist, best of men, was it necessary that you should be drowned in the port?  Oh Miss Cunegonde, pearl of young ladies, was it necessary that you should have your belly slit open?