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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour and Sade's Reply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what month was Sade married?
(a) July.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) October.

2. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1797.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1800.

3. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The troubadours.
(b) The prose writers.
(c) The satirists.
(d) The miracle pageant writers.

4. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(b) He would be burned for his sins.
(c) He was a coward.
(d) He was bound for greatness.

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"?
(a) Myth.
(b) Lie.
(c) Novel.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?

2. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?

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

4. With what people did the novel originate?

5. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.

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