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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Duc.
(b) Saint-Ford.
(c) Almani.
(d) Sade.

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

3. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
(a) 10,000 francs.
(b) 5,000 francs.
(c) 15,000 francs.
(d) 25,000 francs.

4. Where does Courval spend most of his time?
(a) Near Caaux.
(b) Near Nemours.
(c) Near Laiz.
(d) Near Saulcet.

5. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1797.
(d) 1800.

6. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His own mother.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son.
(d) His mother-in-law.

7. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Farady.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Almani.

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

9. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were banned.
(b) They were lost.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were stolen.

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

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

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

13. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of "painting" ____________.
(a) Sin.
(b) Customs.
(c) Violence.
(d) Crimes.

14. How many children does Courval have?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Five.
(d) One.

15. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 24.
(b) 27.
(c) 34.
(d) 31.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

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

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

4. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

5. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

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