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

2. When the narrator wakes up in "The Temptations: Or, Eros, Plutus, and Fame", how does he feel about his interactions with the demons?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Baudelaire include "To Arsène Houssaye" in this collection of poems?

3. In "The Old Woman's Despair", how does the old woman feel after visiting the baby?

4. What are some of the things the narrator is upset with in "At One in the Morning"?

5. What does the narrator say about the concert in "The Widows"?

6. In "A Joker", what does the narrator think about while watching the man and the donkey?

7. What does the narrator see in the jester's eyes in "The Fool and Venus"?

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

9. What is the "Introduction" to this collection of poems?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the theme of mortality in this collection.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the beggar motif throughout this collection.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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