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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 do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) A record of his crimes.
(b) An objective view on his work.
(c) An authentic portrait of him.
(d) A history of his life in Bastille.

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

3. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He would be burned for his sins.
(b) He was bound for greatness.
(c) He was a coward.
(d) He was satisfied living a mundane life.

4. 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."

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The purpose of Nature is ___________.

3. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

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

5. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

(see the answer key)

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