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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Courval spend most of his time?
(a) Near Nemours.
(b) Near Laiz.
(c) Near Saulcet.
(d) Near Caaux.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) Morality.
(b) Libertinage.
(c) God.
(d) Espionage.

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

8. 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 ____________________.
(a) The reality of sin.
(b) The right to do as one wished.
(c) The beginning of tragedy.
(d) The acceptance of the refusal to change.

9. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) Sin.
(b) God.
(c) An original and eternal Nature.
(d) Man.

10. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?
(a) Accurate.
(b) Erroneous.
(c) Veracious.
(d) Flawless.

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

12. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Palestinians.
(b) The Egyptions.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Moors.

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

14. 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 a coward.
(b) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(c) He was bound for greatness.
(d) He would be burned for his sins.

15. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?
(a) 2.
(b) 100.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

2. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

3. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.

4. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?

5. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

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