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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Maldoror speak with the grave-digger in Book I, Stanza 12?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Norway.
(d) Denmark.

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

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

4. How does Maldoror define the suffering God creates in Book II, Stanza 3?
(a) Love.
(b) Natural disasters.
(c) Death.
(d) Humanity itself.

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

6. In Book II, Stanza 12, what example of God's malice does Maldoror examine?
(a) Epidemics.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) Floods.
(d) Crime.

7. What does Maldoror love most about math?
(a) How difficult it is.
(b) How boring it is.
(c) How advanced it is.
(d) How orderly it is.

8. In Book III, Stanza 2, how does the narrator discover the mad woman's secret?
(a) She confesses it to him one night.
(b) He picks up a piece of paper she dropped.
(c) He listens in at her door.
(d) He hears rumors.

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

10. What does the grave-digger promise to do if Maldoror stays at his house?
(a) Make him breakfast.
(b) Not ask about his past.
(c) Ignore anything he says in his sleep.
(d) Give him books to read.

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

12. Why does Maldoror say nature will wonder at his existence when he dies?
(a) Because he always respects nature.
(b) Because he will change death.
(c) Because he will be so old.
(d) Because he violates its laws.

13. 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.

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

15. 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 show the importance of birth parents.
(c) To help people define evil.
(d) To help the evil repent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maldoror describe the talking toad he meets in Book I, Stanza 13?

2. In Book II, Stanza 5, what does Maldoror remember the little girl asking him?

3. In Book II, Stanza 6, where does Maldoror find the boy who is thinking about heaven?

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

5. When God passes out on earth, who gives him a coin when he wakes up?

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