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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. In Book I, Stanza 11, when does Maldoror return to speak to the child?
(a) When the child goes outside.
(b) After the family goes to sleep.
(c) During breakfast.
(d) When the family is praying.

2. Why does Maldoror strangle the child in Book I, Stanza 11?
(a) Because the mother asks him to.
(b) Because the boy won't accept sin.
(c) Because Maldoror is bored.
(d) Because the boy threatens to tell on Maldoror.

3. In Book I, Stanza 4, what does the narrator say about the purpose of this poem?
(a) To help people define evil.
(b) To show the importance of birth parents.
(c) To help the evil repent.
(d) To show the delights of cruelty.

4. How was Maldoror born?
(a) Without parents.
(b) Good.
(c) Into nature.
(d) Filled with evil.

5. In Book I, Stanza 7, what form does Prostitution take?
(a) That of an animal.
(b) That of a man.
(c) That of a woman.
(d) That of an insect.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Book I, Stanza 6, what does Maldoror say has the sweetest taste?

4. What emotion does the grave-digger sense in Maldoror when they talk about faith in God?

5. What does the grave-digger say happens every night at the cemetery?

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