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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour and Sade's Reply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.
(a) Repentance.
(b) Loneliness with another.
(c) Sin alone.
(d) Virtue alone.

2. How many questions did Villeterque state he would "bother with"?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The troubadours.
(b) The satirists.
(c) The miracle pageant writers.
(d) The prose writers.

4. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?
(a) Lenclos.
(b) Gomez.
(c) De Sevigne.
(d) Poisson.

5. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?
(a) Feeling of pride.
(b) Feeling of indignation.
(c) Feeling of synthesis.
(d) Feeling of calmness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what novel did Sade say virtue was best rewarded?

2. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.

3. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

4. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?

5. With what people did the novel originate?

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