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

2. In Book IV, Stanza 7, why does the man have webbed hands and feet?
(a) So he can live at sea.
(b) Because he sinned.
(c) He was part of an experiment.
(d) He was born that way.

3. In Book II, Stanza 11, why does Maldoror throw a rock at a lamp?
(a) Because it looks like God.
(b) Because someone asks him to.
(c) Because it is in his way.
(d) Because it doesn't answer him.

4. In Book IV, Stanza 6, where does Maldoror remember falling asleep?
(a) On a cliff.
(b) In a cave.
(c) Next to a river.
(d) In a tree.

5. What does Maldoror say happened when he decided to not kill the embodiment of Prostitution?
(a) He lost his family.
(b) He saved his soul.
(c) He found trust.
(d) He rejected all virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Maldoror say he had a hard time learning to communicate as a child?

2. What vision begins the narrators rant in Book IV, Stanza 2?

3. What does Maldoror say he promised Holzer?

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

5. In Book IV, Stanza 3, what does Maldoror say the women look like?

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