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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. What is the first form of love that Dolmance decries in this section?
(a) Love of self.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Familial love.

2. Dolmance believes all laws are a crime against whom?
(a) The individual.
(b) The aristocracy.
(c) God.
(d) Eros.

3. What does Dolmance equate goodness with in this section?
(a) Dominance.
(b) Frailty.
(c) Quaintness.
(d) Nothingness.

4. In this section, Eugenie marvels that laws exist that do what?
(a) Constrain pleasure.
(b) Enslave people,
(c) Enforce marriage contracts.
(d) Outlaw sodomy.

5. How does Eugenie respond to Madame de Mistival's arrival at the beginning of the Final Dialogue?
(a) She curses her.
(b) She hides.
(c) She laughs maniacally.
(d) She weeps in repentance.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only useful union between two people, according to Dolmance, is what?

2. What do the libertines adjourn to do at the end of The Bedroom Philosophers?

3. How does Augustin's penis compare to the others in the boudoir?

4. What does Dolmance do to Eugenie as Chevalier sodomizes her in this section?

5. What is the only thing that Madame de Saint-Ange claims to want from her brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could The Bedroom Philosophers be viewed as satire?

2. How is Madame de Mistival punished after her tribunal in the Final Dialogue?

3. What transpires at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?

4. What surprising statement does Chevalier make at the beginning of this section?

5. How does sexual fluid give way to blood at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?

6. How is Chevalier's argument in this section atypical of the rest of the text?

7. Why is marriage unpatriotic, according to the author?

8. Why does Dolmance not break Eugenie's hymen?

9. Why does Madame de Mistival pass out in the Final Dialogue?

10. What is the cumulative value of madame de Saint-Ange's inundation in the Fifth Dialogue?

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