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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 4, the narrator says all men feel what?
(a) Love.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Hate.
(d) Fear.

2. Why does Maldoror send away the beautiful girl in Book II, Stanza 13?
(a) She isn't interesting.
(b) She says she loves God.
(c) He is bored by her.
(d) He fears she is good.

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

4. What does Maldoror beg God for in Book I, Stanza 5?
(a) To free him from evil.
(b) To show him one good man.
(c) To save his soul.
(d) To send him a true love.

5. Why does the toad say he hates Maldoror?
(a) Because he is human.
(b) Because of his pride.
(c) Because of his voice.
(d) Because he is evil.

6. In Book I, Stanza 2, what form does hatred take?
(a) A taste.
(b) A breeze.
(c) An odor.
(d) A vision.

7. How does Maldoror describe the men who are on the horse-drawn bus?
(a) As being lonely.
(b) As being captured.
(c) As being like a corpse.
(d) As being regal.

8. Why was the hermaphrodite granted a pension?
(a) For 30 years of working for the city.
(b) For winning a contest.
(c) For being captured.
(d) It was his wife's.

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

10. When Maldoror sees the ship capsize, what does he vow to do to the people who survive?
(a) Turn them evil.
(b) Follow them.
(c) Kill them.
(d) Laugh at them.

11. Why did the bulldog Maldoror sent to kill the mad woman's daughter not kill the girl?
(a) Because she was already badly injured.
(b) Because she was so young.
(c) Because she was innocent.
(d) Because he thought he had the wrong house.

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

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

14. In Book II, Stanza 2, how does the narrator describe God's treatment?
(a) Shameless.
(b) Complicated.
(c) Kind.
(d) Cruel.

15. In Book II, Stanza 11, what does Maldoror do when the angel appears?
(a) He licks the angel's face.
(b) He throws a lamp at the angel.
(c) He smacks the angel.
(d) He throws a rock at the angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book III, Stanza 2, how does the narrator discover the mad woman's secret?

2. Where is Tremdall when he sees Maldoror in Book III, Stanza 3?

3. Why does Maldoror suggest that the reader grow his/her fingernails out?

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

5. In Book II, Stanza 13, who does Maldoror find that he feels is just like him?

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