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

2. With what people did the novel originate?

3. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

4. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."

5. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

3. What does Florville require of Courval before she will agree to marry him?

4. Where did Sade believe that the original and eternal Nature existed?

5. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

6. What did Sade say about the effect that "insults directed by jealousy" had on a "man of letters"?

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

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

9. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Compare and contrast the character of Oxtiern in the play "Oxtiern" and in the story "Ernestine." How are the depictions similar? How are they different? Which Oxtiern did you find more offensive? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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