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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Id.
(b) Eros.
(c) Logic.
(d) Pathos.

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

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

4. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?
(a) His mistress.
(b) His best friend.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.

5. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Hobes.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Locke.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

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

7. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?
(a) Nyx.
(b) Hera.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Minerva.

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

9. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(b) To admonish culture.
(c) To create law.
(d) To put forth new knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?

2. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?

3. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?

4. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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