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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book I, Stanza 6, what does Maldoror say has the sweetest taste?
(a) The freshest fruit.
(b) The love of a woman.
(c) The tears of innocents.
(d) The blood of enemies.

2. What happens when the street-child chases after the horse-drawn bus?
(a) He jumps aboard.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He is attacked.
(d) He falls down.

3. How does Maldoror describe the talking toad he meets in Book I, Stanza 13?
(a) Evil.
(b) Superior.
(c) Pleasant.
(d) Inferior.

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

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

6. What did Maldoror do to the mad woman's daughter before sending a bulldog to kill the girl?
(a) He tied her up.
(b) He strangled her.
(c) He raped her.
(d) He stabbed her.

7. What does the narrator say to do at the end of Book I, Stanza 1?
(a) Read out loud.
(b) Skip every other poem.
(c) Close the book.
(d) Take a break.

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

9. Why does Maldoror say he believes God has a right to eat men?
(a) Because men taste good.
(b) Because He is all powerful.
(c) Because men are evil.
(d) Because He is their creator.

10. In Book II, Stanza 13, how does Maldoror know the man he meets is good?
(a) Birds sing around him.
(b) Flowers sprout up around him.
(c) The sun always shines on him.
(d) People smile when they see him.

11. What happens to the boy in Book II, Stanza 6, after Maldoror talks with him about heaven?
(a) The boy laughs at Maldoror.
(b) The boy catches a fever.
(c) The boy runs away.
(d) The boy begins to cry.

12. Why does Maldoror suggest that the reader grow his/her fingernails out?
(a) To see how long it takes.
(b) To scratch a child.
(c) To scare people.
(d) To tap on things.

13. In what does Maldoror tell the grave-digger to trust?
(a) Evil.
(b) Death.
(c) God.
(d) Peace.

14. In Book II, Stanza 1, what does the narrator say Maldoror is for the reader?
(a) A friend.
(b) A warning.
(c) A creature.
(d) A censure.

15. Why does Maldoror say he continued to pray as a child in Book II, Stanza 12?
(a) He had nothing else to do.
(b) He wanted it to be true.
(c) His parents made him.
(d) He wanted goodness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does God threaten Maldoror with in Book III, Stanza 5?

3. In Book I, Stanza 6, what does Maldoror say is the "greatest happiness which can be conceived"?

4. How did Maldoror act in his youth?

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

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