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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) Humility.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) Prayer.

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

3. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Contempt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of "painting" ____________.

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

3. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?

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

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

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