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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 maladjusted.
(c) Sade was a criminal.
(d) Sade was bipolar.

2. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Sade.
(b) Saint-Ford.
(c) Duc.
(d) Almani.

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

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

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's mother.
(b) Sade's mother-in-law.
(c) Sade's wife.
(d) An inspector.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

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

3. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

4. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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