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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. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Nietzsche.

2. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(b) Sade was bipolar.
(c) Sade was maladjusted.
(d) Sade was a criminal.

4. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1753.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1784.

5. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

2. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

3. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

4. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

5. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.

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