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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 language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Germanic language.
(b) Gothic language.
(c) Romance language.
(d) Portuguese language.

2. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?
(a) Restif.
(b) Spenser.
(c) Cleland.
(d) Milton.

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

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

5. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?
(a) Criminal.
(b) Hack writer.
(c) Dismissed.
(d) Sinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

2. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

3. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?

4. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

5. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?

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