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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 42.
(b) 47.
(c) 65.
(d) 53.

2. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Crebillon.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Momus.

3. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

4. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 60.

5. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.
(a) The beginning of tragedy.
(b) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(c) The reality of sin.
(d) The right to do as one wished.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

2. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

3. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

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

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