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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book VI, Stanza 2, why does Maldoror want to leave humanity?
(a) Because he loves nature.
(b) Because he is tired of civilization.
(c) Because he hates people.
(d) Because he is bored.

2. In Book IV, Stanza 4, why does Maldoror lose the use of his limbs?
(a) From laying in the same spot.
(b) From a fire.
(c) From sin.
(d) From a train accident.

3. In Book IV, Stanza 2, why does Maldoror want to live among humans?
(a) Because he is tied to society.
(b) To torture them.
(c) To observe them.
(d) Because he loves people.

4. What does the narrator rant about in Book IV, Stanza 2?
(a) The love in animals.
(b) The choices God made.
(c) The pain in humanity.
(d) The complexity of the world.

5. What do the two women do to the man hanging from the gallows?
(a) Yell and insult him.
(b) Tar and whip him.
(c) Beat and whip him.
(d) Tar and feather him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is revealed about the beetles balls once he rolls them up the mound?

2. In Book IV, Stanza 4, what does Maldoror find in his armpit?

3. Why does the man with webbed feet swim toward Maldoror?

4. What provides the man with webbed feet with everything he needs?

5. Who gives the child's funeral service in Book V, Stanza 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have men done to Maldoror in Book IV, Stanza 4?

2. In Book IV, Stanza 2, what is the narrator's message about laughter?

3. What happens when Maldoror first sees Mervyn?

4. In Book VI, Stanza 4, what does Maldoror learn from listening in at Mervyn's door?

5. How does Maldoror compare himself to the man with stolen eyes in Book IV, Stanza 5?

6. What introduction to Book V does the narrator give?

7. How does Elsseneur try to seek revenge against Maldoror?

8. How has the man in Book IV, Stanza 7 adapted to living at sea?

9. In Book V, Stanza 7, how does Maldoror react to the spider's nightly visits?

10. In Book IV, Stanza 2, what is Maldoror's conflict with humanity?

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