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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. What does the narrator hear in the graveyard in "The Firing Range and the Graveyard"?

2. What season is it in "Vocations"?

3. In "The Eyes of the Poor", what does the narrator first say to the woman?

4. Who begins sending the artist letters after the child's death in "The Rope"?

5. How does the narrator know the man he meets in "The Generous Gambler"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Fancioulle work to save his life in "A Heroic Death"?

2. What does the Devil promise the narrator of "The Generous Gambler"?

3. Why is the man angry with the woman in "The Eyes of the Poor"?

4. Why is the woman in "The Desire to Paint" difficult to paint?

5. How does the man feel about clouds in "The Soup and the Clouds"?

6. How does the woman in "Mademoiselle Bistouri" act due to her obsession with doctors?

7. What does Baudelaire see in the thoroughbred, in "A Thoroughbred", that no one else sees?

8. What pleases the narrator in "Plans" about making plans?

9. What is life like on the ship in "Already!"

10. Why does Baudelaire say people should always be drunk in "Get Yourself Drunk"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of the city in the lives of people?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the poet's use of the prose format. Is this effective? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the poetic devices Baudelaire uses such as rhythm, rhyme, repetition, simile, and metaphor.

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