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

2. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 53.
(b) 65.
(c) 47.
(d) 42.

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1771.

4. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 600.
(b) 86.
(c) 780.
(d) 200.

5. 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 ____________________.
(a) The beginning of tragedy.
(b) The reality of sin.
(c) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(d) The right to do as one wished.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?

2. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

3. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

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

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

(see the answer key)

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