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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ernestine, A Swedish Tale.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) God.
(b) An original and eternal Nature.
(c) Sin.
(d) Man.

2. How many guards were escorting the carriage of the young ladies?
(a) More than 40.
(b) More than 30.
(c) More than 20.
(d) More than 50.

3. For the private party that is held every Friday, from where do the women come?
(a) They were from a convent.
(b) They were abducted.
(c) They were from a brothel.
(d) They were from the prisons.

4. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Proportionate.
(b) Indirect.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Unbalanced.

5. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Laclos.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Thackeray .

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "society" have to authenticate in regard to the "young maids" at the fourth dinner party?

2. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

3. Whose daughter does Duc want to marry?

4. Madame Scholtz tells Oxtiern that Herman's profession is that of a ___________.

5. The passions are referred to in Part Four as ___________.

(see the answer key)

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