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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?
(a) Aberrations of Nature.
(b) Immoral books.
(c) Sins against God.
(d) Sinful memories.

3. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?
(a) Nothing.
(b) 500 francs a year.
(c) 4,000 francs a year.
(d) 2,000 francs a year.

4. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Veracious.
(c) Flawless.
(d) Erroneous.

5. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?
(a) Her sin.
(b) Her modesty.
(c) Her religion.
(d) Her birth.

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

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

8. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) A record of his crimes.
(b) An objective view on his work.
(c) An authentic portrait of him.
(d) A history of his life in Bastille.

9. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Unbalanced.
(b) Indirect.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Proportionate.

10. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By forgetting who she is completely.
(b) By forging forward at all costs.
(c) By insuring that her works become immortal.
(d) By destroying her own works.

11. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

13. Where did Florville go to give birth?
(a) Belleville.
(b) laiz.
(c) Paris.
(d) Metz.

14. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Balance.
(d) Democracy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

2. How old is Florville during the action of the story?

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

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

5. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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