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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. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?
(a) Villeterque-the-condemner.
(b) Villeterque-the-sinner.
(c) Villeterque-the-plagiarist.
(d) Villeterque-the-swine.

2. 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 a criminal.
(d) Sade was maladjusted.

3. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His son.
(b) His mother-in-law.
(c) His wife.
(d) His own mother.

4. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?
(a) Cleland.
(b) Milton.
(c) Spenser.
(d) Restif.

5. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Shame.
(b) Humility.
(c) Prayer.
(d) All of the given answers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?

3. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

4. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?

5. In what novel did Sade say virtue was best rewarded?

(see the answer key)

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