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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) Woman.
(b) Man.
(c) Sade.
(d) God.

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

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

4. Courval is told that Florville is related to ______________.
(a) Saint-Prat.
(b) Dienteur.
(c) Marcus Flind.
(d) St. Pierre.

5. How old is Florville during the action of the story?
(a) 26.
(b) 28.
(c) 36.
(d) 31.

6. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.
(a) A slave boy.
(b) An officer in the Navy.
(c) Senneval.
(d) Courval.

7. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
(a) 10,000 francs.
(b) 5,000 francs.
(c) 15,000 francs.
(d) 25,000 francs.

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

9. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) Espionage.
(b) Libertinage.
(c) Morality.
(d) God.

10. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of "painting" ____________.
(a) Crimes.
(b) Sin.
(c) Violence.
(d) Customs.

11. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and violence.
(b) Resentment and violence.
(c) Hatred and sadism.
(d) Foulness and violence.

12. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Man.
(b) Animals.
(c) God.
(d) Nature.

13. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Sadism.

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

15. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Hera.
(c) Nyx.
(d) Minerva.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

2. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

3. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

4. With what people did the novel originate?

5. 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 ____________________.

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