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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 does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
(a) The story about her finding God.
(b) The story behind her affair.
(c) The adventures of her life.
(d) The story of her parents.

2. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Sadism.

3. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?
(a) Out of context delusions.
(b) Out of context isolated phrases.
(c) Out of context passages of lust.
(d) Out of context passages of dialogue.

4. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Shame.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) Humility.

5. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

3. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.

4. How many children does Courval have?

5. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

(see the answer key)

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