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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: The Widows, The Old Mountebank & Cake.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator feel at the end of "Cake"?
(a) Confused.
(b) Excited.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Proud.

2. What word does Baudelaire use to describe clouds in "The Foreigner"?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) Dramatic.
(c) Painful.
(d) Dark.

3. What does the narrator ask the men in "To Each His Chimera"?
(a) How heavy the chimeras are.
(b) Who is in control.
(c) When they found the chimeras.
(d) Where they are going.

4. In "To Arsène Houssaye", what does the author say reading Aloysius Bertrand made him want to do?
(a) Change his career.
(b) Copy his style.
(c) Become a journalist.
(d) Write a novel.

5. What season does the poet reflect upon in "The Artist's Confiteor"?
(a) Fall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the strange man in "Cake" has a piece of food?

2. What does the narrator drop on the glazier in "The Bad Glazier"?

3. Why does the artist in "The Artist's Confiteor" decide he cannot describe nature?

4. In "The Bad Glazier", why does the narrator's friend start a forest fire?

5. In "The Double Room", what does the narrator call the woman on the bed?

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