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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. According to Madame de Saint-Ange in this section, why are no desires uncommon?
(a) They are all permitted in libertinage.
(b) They are all found in nature.
(c) They are all pleasurable.
(d) They are all lawful.

2. Who does Chevalier penetrate immediately after ejaculating in the Fourth Dialogue?
(a) Dolmance.
(b) Chevalier.
(c) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(d) Augustin.

3. With whom does Dolmance perform anal sex in this section?
(a) Chevalier.
(b) Augustin.
(c) Eugenie.
(d) Madame de Saint-Ange.

4. Who is the first character to begin kissing and caressing Eugenie?
(a) Dolmance.
(b) Chevalier.
(c) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(d) Augustin.

5. According to Dolmance, what attribute offers the best chance of success in life?
(a) Industriousness.
(b) Deceit.
(c) Ruthlessness.
(d) Tenderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Fourth Dialogue, what has Madame de Saint-Ange offered 500 sous for?

2. What activity does Madame advocate for at length in this section?

3. What does Chevalier declare Eugenie to be in the beginning of the Fourth Dialogue?

4. What promise do Madame de Saint-Ange and Dolmance make Eugenie at the beginning of this section?

5. In the Fourth Dialogue, who penetrates Dolmance with a dildo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What standing wager does Madame de Saint-Ange have?

2. What skill do women have for cruelty, according to Dolmance at the end of the Third Dialogue?

3. What pattern of sexual arrangements emerges in the Third Dialogue?

4. How is the the sexual passage of this section typical of the writing of The Bedroom Philosophers?

5. How does Eugenie respond to finding Dolamnce in the boudoir in the Third Dialogue?

6. At the beginning of this section, what argument does Dolmance make regarding virtue?

7. Why is sodomy, according to Dolmance, the height of libertine pleasure?

8. How does Madame de Saint-Ange recommend a married woman carry out her infidelity?

9. Describe the argument that Dolmance and Chevalier have in the Fourth Dialogue?

10. What odd and incorrect theories of conception are discussed in the Third Dialogue?

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