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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?
(a) Hack writer.
(b) Criminal.
(c) Dismissed.
(d) Sinner.

10. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 600.
(b) 780.
(c) 200.
(d) 86.

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

12. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

13. Where did Florville go to give birth?
(a) Belleville.
(b) laiz.
(c) Metz.
(d) Paris.

14. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?
(a) 60.
(b) 55.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?

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

3. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?

4. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

5. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

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