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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Maldoror say he has no hope for after his death?
(a) Peace.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Salvation.

2. What does Maldoror say he promised Holzer?
(a) To never steal.
(b) To never commit suicide.
(c) To never covet a woman.
(d) To never commit murder.

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

4. Why does Maldoror say he had a hard time learning to communicate as a child?
(a) He was born deaf.
(b) His tongue was too large.
(c) He was shy.
(d) His parents rarely talked.

5. What does Mario say when Maldoror asks about his sadness in Book III, Stanza 1?
(a) He says he is fine.
(b) He says he is uncertain.
(c) He says he is tormented.
(d) He says he is weary.

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

7. In Book II, Stanza 6, where does Maldoror find the boy who is thinking about heaven?
(a) In his home.
(b) At school.
(c) On a bench.
(d) At a store.

8. In Book I, Stanza 6, what does Maldoror say is the "greatest happiness which can be conceived"?
(a) Being evil and getting away with it.
(b) Being hated and loved.
(c) Being a savior.
(d) Being hurt and then rescued.

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

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

11. What emotion does the grave-digger sense in Maldoror when they talk about faith in God?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Sadness.

12. When God passes out on earth, how do the animals react?
(a) The ignore him.
(b) They bow down to him.
(c) They kick him.
(d) They curse him.

13. What stops the narrator from writing in Book II, Stanza 2?
(a) He is tired.
(b) A supernatural force.
(c) His wife.
(d) Maldoror.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maldoror say happened when he decided to not kill the embodiment of Prostitution?

2. What did Maldoror do to the mad woman's daughter before sending a bulldog to kill the girl?

3. With what does the narrator begin this poem?

4. To what does the grave-digger say his occupation is tied?

5. What does the narrator say the reader must read these poems with?

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