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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. What does the poet say the first man died of "Evening Twilight"?
(a) Madness.
(b) Fear.
(c) Illness.
(d) Old age.

2. Why does the narrator offer food to the strange man in "Cake"?
(a) Because he looks like he needs it.
(b) Because he pays for it.
(c) Because he says he has a child who is hungry.
(d) The strange man just takes the food.

3. In "A Hemisphere in Her Hair", what color hair does the poet focus on?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blonde.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

4. In "The Fool and Venus", what is the man dressed like a jester doing?
(a) Drawing a picture.
(b) Staring at a statue.
(c) Begging for money.
(d) Performing in a park.

5. How is "The Foreigner" organized?
(a) In alphabetical order.
(b) In chronological order.
(c) As a series of questions.
(d) As a letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator call himself in "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress"?

2. In "To Each His Chimera", how does the narrator describe the chimera on the backs of the men?

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

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

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

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