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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Maldoror describe the talking toad he meets in Book I, Stanza 13?
(a) Superior.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Pleasant.
(d) Evil.

2. With what does the narrator begin this poem?
(a) A lesson.
(b) A rhyme.
(c) A warning.
(d) A question.

3. In Book III, Stanza 5, who attacks the prostitute?
(a) A snake.
(b) A demon.
(c) A chicken.
(d) Maldoror.

4. What does the grave-digger promise to do if Maldoror stays at his house?
(a) Make him breakfast.
(b) Give him books to read.
(c) Not ask about his past.
(d) Ignore anything he says in his sleep.

5. Why does Maldoror strangle the child in Book I, Stanza 11?
(a) Because Maldoror is bored.
(b) Because the boy threatens to tell on Maldoror.
(c) Because the boy won't accept sin.
(d) Because the mother asks him to.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book III, Stanza 1, who does the fisherman think Maldoror and Mario are?

2. How was Maldoror born?

3. In what does Maldoror tell the grave-digger to trust?

4. What happens to the boy in Book II, Stanza 6, after Maldoror talks with him about heaven?

5. Why does Maldoror suggest that the reader grow his/her fingernails out?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Book III, Stanza 3, what does Tremdall witness?

2. When Mario and Maldoror travel together in Book III, what do they talk about?

3. Why does Maldoror feel the ocean is superior to humanity?

4. What happens when Maldoror addresses the lamp hanging in a cathedral?

5. Why does Maldoror tell men to stop worshiping an insect god?

6. What does Maldoror say about the ten-year old girl who used to follow him?

7. In Book III, Stanza 5, how does God describe His experience in the brothel?

8. How does Maldoror feel about the talking toad he meets in Book I, Stanza 13?

9. What does Maldoror do when the bulldog he sends to kill the mad woman's daughter doesn't kill her?

10. What happens to God when He passes out drunk on earth?

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