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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book V, Stanzas 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provides the man with webbed feet with everything he needs?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Hope.
(c) God.
(d) Providence.

2. What does the narrator tell the vulture to do in Book V, Stanza 2?
(a) To come down to earth.
(b) To stop fighting.
(c) To fly away.
(d) To show himself.

3. Who does the narrator learn was witness to everything Maldoror did to the mad woman and her daughter?
(a) A priest.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A shepherd.
(d) No one.

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

5. What do the two women do to the man hanging from the gallows?
(a) Yell and insult him.
(b) Tar and feather him.
(c) Tar and whip him.
(d) Beat and whip him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the victims of the capsized ship in Book II, Stanza 13?

2. In Book IV, Stanza 6, what animal does Maldoror say he turned into in his dream?

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

4. In Book IV, Stanza 5, why does Maldoror say he once scalped a man?

5. What does Mario say when Maldoror asks about his sadness in Book III, Stanza 1?

(see the answer key)

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