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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10: The Rope, Vocations, The Thyrsus & Get Yourself Drunk.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after the strange man in "Cake" has a piece of food?
(a) The narrator takes it back.
(b) He throws it on the ground.
(c) Another man attacks him.
(d) He eats it quickly.

2. Where does the poet glimpse men in "A Hemisphere in Her Hair"?
(a) Church.
(b) Market.
(c) A port.
(d) A school.

3. Why does the artist in "The Rope" want to paint the child so frequently?
(a) He is taken by the child's face.
(b) He is in love with the child's aunt.
(c) He misses his own childhood.
(d) The child will pose for free.

4. In "The Widows", what do the poor do with their grief?
(a) They try to hide it.
(b) They use it to avoid paying bills.
(c) They turn it into art.
(d) They express it aloud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Heroic Death", what job does Fancioulle have?

2. In "The Toy of the Poor", what separates the rich child from the poor?

3. Why does the narrator suggest people should buy toys in "The Toy of the Poor"?

4. In "The Foreigner", what emotions does Baudelaire tie to gold?

5. In "Solitude", what does the journalist ask the poet about sharing?

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