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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.
(a) Hate and power.
(b) Spite and malice.
(c) Prayer and love.
(d) Lust and love.

2. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By forgetting who she is completely.
(b) By insuring that her works become immortal.
(c) By destroying her own works.
(d) By forging forward at all costs.

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

4. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?
(a) 2,000 francs a year.
(b) 4,000 francs a year.
(c) 500 francs a year.
(d) Nothing.

5. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) All Hallow's Eve.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Year's.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?

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

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

4. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?

5. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

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