Lautréamont's Maldoror: Translated by Alexis Lykiard | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Book I, Stanzas 1-9

1. With what does the narrator begin this poem?

2. What does the narrator say the reader must read these poems with?

3. What does the narrator say to do at the end of Book I, Stanza 1?

4. In Book I, Stanza 2, what form does hatred take?

5. How did Maldoror act in his youth?

6. How was Maldoror born?

7. In Book I, Stanza 4, what does the narrator say about the purpose of this poem?

8. In Book I, Stanza 4, the narrator says all men feel what?

9. In Book I, Stanza 5, what does Maldoror say differs among men?

10. What does Maldoror beg God for in...
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