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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. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(b) "Les Antiquaires."
(c) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."
(d) "Oxtiern."

2. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Joseph de Maistre.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hobes.

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

4. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Farady.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Almani.

5. 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 maladjusted.
(d) Sade was bipolar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

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

3. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

4. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

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

(see the answer key)

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