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

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

3. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?
(a) Feeling of synthesis.
(b) Feeling of indignation.
(c) Feeling of calmness.
(d) Feeling of pride.

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

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Resentment and violence.
(b) Hatred and violence.
(c) Hatred and sadism.
(d) Foulness and violence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

4. 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 ____________________.

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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