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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Stanzas 10-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maldoror beg God for in Book I, Stanza 5?
(a) To save his soul.
(b) To show him one good man.
(c) To send him a true love.
(d) To free him from evil.

2. To what does the grave-digger say his occupation is tied?
(a) Questions of mortality.
(b) Sadness and fear.
(c) Nothing, it's meaningless work.
(d) Analysis of pain.

3. How does Maldoror describe the men who are on the horse-drawn bus?
(a) As being lonely.
(b) As being captured.
(c) As being like a corpse.
(d) As being regal.

4. 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 the boy threatens to tell on Maldoror.
(d) Because Maldoror is bored.

5. What does Maldoror say happens to people who keep insects as pets?
(a) It wastes their money.
(b) It holds them back.
(c) It smells bad.
(d) It sends the wrong message to women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maldoror say probably lies beneath the young girl's angelic exterior in Book II, Stanza 5?

2. In Book I, Stanza 11, when does Maldoror return to speak to the child?

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

4. Why does Maldoror say he continued to pray as a child in Book II, Stanza 12?

5. In Book II, Stanza 3, what does Maldoror want God to reveal?

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