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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7: The Fairies' Gifts, The Temptations: Or, Eros, Plutus, and Fame & Evening Twilight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Bad Glazier", why does the narrator's friend start a forest fire?
(a) To frighten his wife.
(b) To see how quickly it spread.
(c) It is an accident.
(d) Because he falls asleep while smoking a cigar.

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

3. Who chooses the gifts the children receive in "The Fairies' Gifts"?
(a) A beast.
(b) The children's parents.
(c) The children.
(d) The fairies.

4. What does the baby boy do when he sees the old woman in "The Old Woman's Despair"?
(a) He cries.
(b) He crawls away.
(c) He falls asleep.
(d) He laughs.

5. In "Crowds", what does the narrator give credit to for the people who stand out in a crowd?
(a) Religion.
(b) Good education.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress", what does the narrator describe as being in an iron cage?

2. Why does the narrator offer food to the strange man in "Cake"?

3. In "The Double Room", what does the narrator describe about the room?

4. In "The Foreigner", what does Baudelaire say he does not know the latitude of?

5. In "The Foreigner", what does Baudelaire say about his father?

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