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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

2. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?

3. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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

5. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Courval do to find a new wife?

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

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

5. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

6. Describe Mademoiselle de Florville.

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

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

9. Why did man write novels?

10. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you believe that the "Passions" moved from "complex" to "criminal" to "murderous"? What was the progression? What changed as the "Passions" progressed? Why do you believe the "Passions" changed?

Essay Topic 2

While it is a fact that Sade's writing was banned for close to 170 years in France, it was also banned in England and the United States. Why do you think that the ban was lifted on the text? What about the text did some find worthy of lifting the ban? Would you have lifted the ban? Why/Why not?

Essay Topic 3

Women have fought over Sade's writing. Angela Carter ("The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography" (1979)) believed Sade to be a "moral pornographer." Andrea Dworkin ("Pornography: Men Possessing Women" (1979)) saw Sade as the model of the "woman-hating pornographer." With whom do you agree? Did Sade hate women, or did he create a "special place" for women in the lives of men?

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