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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Florville and Courval.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 86.
(b) 600.
(c) 780.
(d) 200.

2. How many children does Courval have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

3. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) In prison.
(b) His home.
(c) His bed.
(d) A brothel.

4. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Myth.
(b) Novel.
(c) Lie.
(d) History.

5. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Courval.
(b) Lerince.
(c) Verquin.
(d) Senneval.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

2. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?

3. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

4. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

5. At what "level" did Freud look at life?

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