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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1753.

3. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Proportionate.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Indirect.

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

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

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

7. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

8. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade was a criminal.
(b) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(c) Sade was bipolar.
(d) Sade was maladjusted.

9. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By forging forward at all costs.
(b) By destroying her own works.
(c) By forgetting who she is completely.
(d) By insuring that her works become immortal.

10. At what "level" did Freud look at life?
(a) Mineral.
(b) Organic.
(c) Inorganic.
(d) Animal.

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

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

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

14. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a destroyer.
(b) Being a creative evolutionist.
(c) Being an accuser.
(d) Being a forgiver.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?

2. In what month was Sade married?

3. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

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

5. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?

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