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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book V, Stanzas 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the family in Book I, Stanza 11 hear after Maldoror watches them eat?
(a) Whispers.
(b) Banging sounds.
(c) Music.
(d) Cries.

2. Who tells the reader that Maldoror is a pedarist?
(a) A homeless man.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Maldoror himself.
(d) God.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Maldoror tell the grave-digger to trust?

2. Where does Maldoror watch the child's funeral from in Book V, Stanza 6?

3. What does Maldoror beg God for in Book I, Stanza 5?

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

5. Where does the hermaphrodite live?

(see the answer key)

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