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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. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?
(a) Out of context isolated phrases.
(b) Out of context passages of lust.
(c) Out of context delusions.
(d) Out of context passages of dialogue.

2. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Crebillon.
(b) Momus.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Voltaire.

3. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Prayer and love.
(b) Prayer and desire.
(c) Desire and need.
(d) Lust and love.

4. At what "level" did Freud look at life?
(a) Animal.
(b) Inorganic.
(c) Mineral.
(d) Organic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

2. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

3. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?

4. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?

5. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

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