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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Florville and Courval.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) History.
(b) Lie.
(c) Myth.
(d) Novel.

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?
(a) A strong soul.
(b) The ability to do what he wished without punishment.
(c) A real life.
(d) The ability to be regarded as a famous writer.

3. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?
(a) A secluded life.
(b) A libertine life.
(c) A sad life.
(d) An charmed life.

4. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against Nature.
(b) When he sins against mankind.
(c) When he multiplies.
(d) When he sins against God.

5. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 34.
(b) 27.
(c) 31.
(d) 24.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

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

3. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?

4. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?

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

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