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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Flogging.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Eroticism.

5. Courval is told that Florville is related to ______________.
(a) Saint-Prat.
(b) Dienteur.
(c) St. Pierre.
(d) Marcus Flind.

6. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?
(a) De Sevigne.
(b) Poisson.
(c) Lenclos.
(d) Gomez.

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

8. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?
(a) The ability to do what he wished without punishment.
(b) A real life.
(c) The ability to be regarded as a famous writer.
(d) A strong soul.

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

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

11. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?
(a) 500 francs a year.
(b) 4,000 francs a year.
(c) Nothing.
(d) 2,000 francs a year.

12. In what month was Sade married?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) May.
(d) October.

13. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1771.

14. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Romance language.
(b) Gothic language.
(c) Germanic language.
(d) Portuguese language.

15. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Materialistic atheism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?

2. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

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

4. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?

5. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

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