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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Prayer and love.
(b) Desire and need.
(c) Lust and love.
(d) Prayer and desire.

2. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?
(a) 10.
(b) 100.
(c) 2.
(d) 20.

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

4. How old is Florville during the action of the story?
(a) 31.
(b) 36.
(c) 26.
(d) 28.

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against mankind.
(b) When he sins against Nature.
(c) When he sins against God.
(d) When he multiplies.

6. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?
(a) English.
(b) Moors.
(c) Romans.
(d) Spaniards.

7. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
(a) The story behind her affair.
(b) The adventures of her life.
(c) The story about her finding God.
(d) The story of her parents.

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

9. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Machiavelli.

10. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Nature.
(b) Animals.
(c) God.
(d) Man.

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

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

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

14. According to Sade, the truly honest man refuses to deal in ____________.
(a) Hearsay.
(b) Fact.
(c) Trust.
(d) Proof.

15. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Palestinians.
(b) The Egyptions.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Moors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?

2. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

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

4. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?

5. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?

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