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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Gothic language.
(b) Romance language.
(c) Portuguese language.
(d) Germanic language.

2. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.
(a) The right to do as one wished.
(b) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(c) The beginning of tragedy.
(d) The reality of sin.

3. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sade.
(c) Sin.
(d) Adam.

4. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1784.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1753.

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's mother-in-law.
(b) An inspector.
(c) Sade's mother.
(d) Sade's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?

2. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.

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

4. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

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

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