Answer:
D. Candide is given respect because of his noble birth is the following inferences that best supported by the excerpt.
Explanation:
Voltaire was a French historian and one of the greatest writers from the Age of Enlightenment period.
Voltaire’s Candide has many themes, but the most central is the inadequacy of optimistic thinking.
Candide was a protest against a naive optimism that ignored the granite might of human meanness, ignorance, and irrationality.
Candide is an illegitimate son of the Baron's sister and stays in the castle of Westphalia.
He gets an education in the castle from Pangloss who taught him, "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds".
Therefore we can conclude that Candide is given respect as being noble birth.
Thus option D. Candide is given respect because of his noble birth is the correct option.
