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

2. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were burned.
(b) They were lost.
(c) They were stolen.
(d) They were banned.

3. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Hebe.
(b) Curval.
(c) Duc.
(d) Blangis.

4. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?
(a) They would "be found guilty of their crimes."
(b) They would "be exhaulted."
(c) They would be "read no more."
(d) They would "be revered."

5. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sin.
(d) Adam.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

2. 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 ____________________.

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

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

5. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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