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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 200.
(b) 86.
(c) 780.
(d) 600.

2. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Almani.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Farady.

3. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Christmas.
(d) All Hallow's Eve.

4. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Almani.
(b) Duc.
(c) Saint-Ford.
(d) Sade.

5. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
(a) The story behind her affair.
(b) The story of her parents.
(c) The story about her finding God.
(d) The adventures of her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?

2. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

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

4. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Klossowski state that Sade believed regarding "Nature in a state of perpetual motion"?

2. What do Sade's admirers admit about Sade's work?

3. Why did man write novels?

4. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

5. What did Sade state about Vileterque's response to "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

6. What two things does the "arranger" believe Florville has that count against her?

7. What was the progression of the novel throughout history?

8. What was the contradiction that Villeterque set up regarding glory, virtue, and villainy?

9. What did Sade say that Voltaire did when he wrote?

10. According to Sade, how did Villeterque use "out of context isolated phrases"?

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