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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Moors.
(b) The Egyptions.
(c) The Palestinians.
(d) The Greeks.

2. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Machiavelli.

3. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?
(a) They would be "read no more."
(b) They would "be found guilty of their crimes."
(c) They would "be revered."
(d) They would "be exhaulted."

4. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?
(a) Hack writer.
(b) Dismissed.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Sinner.

5. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) God.
(b) An original and eternal Nature.
(c) Man.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."

2. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

3. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?

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

5. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

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