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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the tradesman react to his child's gift in "The Fairies' Gifts"?

2. Why does the narrator say the poor children will be wary in "The Toy of the Poor"?

3. In "The Bad Glazier", why does the narrator suppose demons take over people?

4. What does the strange man call "cake" in "Cake"?

5. Who chooses the gifts the children receive in "The Fairies' Gifts"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Old Mountebank" feel about the mountebank?

2. What does Baudelaire say about the night in "Evening Twilight"?

3. What are the fairies doing in "The Fairies' Gifts"?

4. In "The Artist's Confiteor", why is the artist upset?

5. What happens after the glazier leaves the man's room in "The Bad Glazier"?

6. How does the narrator of "The Toy of the Poor" say poor children are similar to rich children?

7. In "To Each His Chimera", what do the chimeras make the narrator realize?

8. In "The Widows", what does the narrator see when he follows the woman?

9. Why does the narrator threaten to throw the woman out in "The Wild Woman and the Little Mistress"?

10. Why does "The Foreigner" end with a comment about clouds?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is greed a motivating factor in several of these poems? What message about greed is delivered?

Essay Topic 2

This collection is considered an example of modernism. Define the literary movement and explain how Baudelaire fits, and does not fit, in with the movement.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the references to religion in these poems. What role does religion play in deciding what is good or evil? What else helps to control morality other than religion?

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