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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. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Nature.
(b) Animals.
(c) God.
(d) Man.

2. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a forgiver.
(b) Being an accuser.
(c) Being a destroyer.
(d) Being a creative evolutionist.

3. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.
(a) Sin alone.
(b) Loneliness with another.
(c) Virtue alone.
(d) Repentance.

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Curval.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Duc.

5. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1753.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1784.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?

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

5. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?

(see the answer key)

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