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

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

3. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?

4. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?

5. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Klossowski believe that Sade looked at man as a competitor of Nature?

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

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

4. What was the description of Sade from March 1793?

5. What did Klossowski quote from "The 120 Days of Sodom" regarding happiness?

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

7. Why did Sade state that he did not want to make vice attractive in his writings?

8. What were Sade's beliefs about giving the title of "novel" to a written work?

9. Why did Villeterque state that he would only address one of the questions that Sade posed in "Reflections on the Novel"?

10. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Sade was an atheist, do you think that he believed himself to be "god-like" or divine? What qualities did he show that would cause one to believe that Sade carried himself like a god? Or, do you believe that Sade thought himself to be simply mortal? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you believe that Sade found it necessary to describe his characters from "120 Days of Sodom" in such depth? What did the depth of the description do for you as a reader? Did the description cause you to feel differently about the character than if they were not described in such depth? Why? What do you think a more "lacking" description would have done for you as a reader?

Essay Topic 3

How did you find yourself reacting to the text as you read it? What were your concerns? Did you believe that you were prepared to read the text and find that you were, in fact, not? Or, did you find that you were more than prepared for the material presented in the text because of the more lax societal views on sexual "deviancy" today?

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