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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Verquin.
(b) Courval.
(c) Senneval.
(d) Lerince.

2. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Eros.
(b) Id.
(c) Logic.
(d) Pathos.

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

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

5. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1799.

6. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Hebe.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Duc.
(d) Curval.

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

8. 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 beginning of tragedy.
(b) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(c) The reality of sin.
(d) The right to do as one wished.

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

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

11. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.
(a) Accepted.
(b) Triumphant.
(c) As Nature wanted.
(d) Successful.

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

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

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

15. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 27.
(b) 34.
(c) 24.
(d) 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?

2. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?

3. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?

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

5. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?

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