1. “Laughing With” What do you see? List the images. What do you hear? What does she say about God? Suffering? Humanity? What do you think the images mean? How do they relate to the lyrics? What is the point of an optical allusion? What do they teach us? What does “Not laughing at someone, but laughing with someone” mean?

2. “Cultivate your Garden” How is this expression a solution to the problem? What does it mean? Has Candide really gained anything from the journey or is it a failure? Give evidence.

3. Quest What are the steps to a quest? Is Candide a quest hero? Does the book follow the quest format? Link each section to the book as best you can and tell whether it succeeds or fails.

4. To a Mouse Paraphrase the last stanza of “To a Mouse”

5. Monsters Revisited We look at some things that could be monsters back at the beginning of the year with Beowulf.