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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.
(a) Senneval.
(b) An officer in the Navy.
(c) Courval.
(d) A slave boy.

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Resentment and violence.
(b) Hatred and violence.
(c) Foulness and violence.
(d) Hatred and sadism.

3. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Oxtiern."
(b) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(c) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."
(d) "Les Antiquaires."

4. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?
(a) Feeling of calmness.
(b) Feeling of pride.
(c) Feeling of synthesis.
(d) Feeling of indignation.

5. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Adam.
(c) Sin.
(d) Sade.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

3. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

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

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

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