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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: To Each His Chimera, The Fool and Venus & The Dog and the Vial.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In "To Each His Chimera", what color is the sky?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

4. In "The Fool and Venus", at what or where does the narrator notice Venus staring?
(a) To the sky.
(b) At himself.
(c) At the jester.
(d) Into the distance.

5. In "To Arsène Houssaye", what does Baudelaire say this work lacks?
(a) The touches of an editor.
(b) A head or tail.
(c) Sophistication.
(d) Common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the baby boy do when he sees the old woman in "The Old Woman's Despair"?

2. In "The Fool and Venus", what is the man dressed like a jester doing?

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

4. In "The Foreigner", what emotion does Baudelaire discuss?

5. In "A Joker", what does the donkey do when he sees the man?

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