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

2. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1796.
(d) 1792.

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

4. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(b) To create law.
(c) To put forth new knowledge.
(d) To admonish culture.

5. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Crebillon.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Momus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?

2. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?

3. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

4. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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

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