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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: To Each His Chimera, The Fool and Venus & The Dog and the Vial.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baudelaire say about friends in "The Foreigner"?
(a) He only has a few.
(b) They waste time.
(c) They are more important than family.
(d) He does not know the meaning.

2. Where does the narrator of "The Dog and The Vial" get the perfume?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Berlin.

3. In "To Each His Chimera", what color is the sky?
(a) Black.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

4. In "To Each His Chimera", how does the narrator describe the chimera on the backs of the men?
(a) That they are supporting the men.
(b) That they are wings.
(c) That they are part of the men.
(d) That they are invisible.

5. What does the narrator of "A Joker" think of his society?
(a) That it is "growing poorer."
(b) That it is a "splendid imbecile."
(c) That it is being taken over by animals.
(d) That it is "well educated."

Short Answer Questions

1. In "To Arsène Houssaye", what does Baudelaire say this work lacks?

2. In "The Foreigner", what emotion does Baudelaire discuss?

3. In "The Double Room", what wakes the narrator from his dream?

4. In "The Dog and The Vial", what does the narrator say the dog resembles?

5. In "To Arsène Houssaye", what does the author say reading Aloysius Bertrand made him want to do?

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