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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book I, Stanzas 10-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the grave-digger promise to do if Maldoror stays at his house?
(a) Ignore anything he says in his sleep.
(b) Give him books to read.
(c) Not ask about his past.
(d) Make him breakfast.

2. What emotion does the grave-digger sense in Maldoror when they talk about faith in God?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Fear.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Happiness.

3. What does Maldoror say he has no hope for after his death?
(a) Truth.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Peace.

4. What does the grave-digger say happens every night at the cemetery?
(a) The corpses rise for air.
(b) Animals howl.
(c) Someone falls in a grave.
(d) The wind whispers prayers.

5. In Book I, Stanza 2, what form does hatred take?
(a) An odor.
(b) A breeze.
(c) A vision.
(d) A taste.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Maldoror act in his youth?

2. Why does Maldoror say nature will wonder at his existence when he dies?

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

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

5. In Book I, Stanza 6, what does Maldoror say is the "greatest happiness which can be conceived"?

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