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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and sadism.
(b) Resentment and violence.
(c) Foulness and violence.
(d) Hatred and violence.

2. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) God.
(b) Woman.
(c) Sade.
(d) Man.

3. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) One.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

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

5. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Momus.
(b) Crebillon.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Chaucer.

6. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1796.

7. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Gauls.
(d) The Romans.

8. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.
(a) Guilty.
(b) Repentant.
(c) Happy.
(d) Pathetic.

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

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

11. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The satirists.
(b) The miracle pageant writers.
(c) The prose writers.
(d) The troubadours.

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

13. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Shame.
(d) Humility.

14. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) A brothel.
(b) His bed.
(c) His home.
(d) In prison.

15. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(b) He was a coward.
(c) He was bound for greatness.
(d) He would be burned for his sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?

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

3. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?

4. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

5. With what people did the novel originate?

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