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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Oxtiern, or The Misfortunes of Libertinage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Champville, on the 16th of December, with whom is Duc always pictured?
(a) All women.
(b) Three men and three women.
(c) One man and one woman.
(d) All men.

2. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were banned.
(b) They were burned.
(c) They were lost.
(d) They were stolen.

3. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Moors.
(c) The Egyptions.
(d) The Palestinians.

4. According to the introduction to "Oxtiern," Sade was "particularly attached" to _____________.
(a) Theater.
(b) The truth.
(c) Novels.
(d) Fate.

5. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?
(a) Romans.
(b) English.
(c) Moors.
(d) Spaniards.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oxtiern tells Derbac his one goal in life is ____________.

3. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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

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"?

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