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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?
(a) "Retaliation."
(b) "Le Cocu de Lui-même."
(c) "Les Crimes de L'Amour."
(d) "L'Instituteur Philosophe."

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

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

4. How many questions did Villeterque state he would "bother with"?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) None.
(d) Three.

5. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Balance.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Sadness.

6. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 47.
(b) 42.
(c) 53.
(d) 65.

7. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.
(a) Accepted.
(b) Triumphant.
(c) As Nature wanted.
(d) Successful.

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

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

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

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

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

13. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) All Hallow's Eve.
(b) Christmas.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Easter.

14. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?
(a) Aberrations of Nature.
(b) Immoral books.
(c) Sinful memories.
(d) Sins against God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

2. How many children does Courval have?

3. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

4. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.

5. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

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