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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: The Bad Glazier, At One in the Morning, The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress & Crowds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Foreigner", what emotions does Baudelaire tie to gold?
(a) Love.
(b) Passion.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Fear.

2. How does the narrator describe the dog after he smells the perfume in "The Dog and the Vial"?
(a) Admirable.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Smelly.
(d) Ill tempered.

3. In "To Arsène Houssaye", what does Baudelaire say this work lacks?
(a) The touches of an editor.
(b) Common sense.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) A head or tail.

4. How does the poet describe the words "multitude" and "solitude" in "Crowds"?
(a) As being opposites.
(b) As being painful.
(c) As being identical.
(d) As being difficult to spell.

5. In "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress", what bothers the narrator about the woman?
(a) Her clothes are dirty.
(b) Her sister.
(c) She whines.
(d) She is poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Old Woman's Despair", to what does the old woman compare herself?

2. What does the narrator of "A Joker" think of his society?

3. Why does the narrator feel sympathy for the man dressed as a jester in "The Fool and Venus"?

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

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

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