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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 "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?
(a) Her birth.
(b) Her modesty.
(c) Her religion.
(d) Her sin.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Curval.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Duc.

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?
(a) De Sevigne.
(b) Lenclos.
(c) Poisson.
(d) Gomez.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what month was Sade married?

3. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

4. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

5. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?

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