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

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

4. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) An authentic portrait of him.
(b) A history of his life in Bastille.
(c) A record of his crimes.
(d) An objective view on his work.

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

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

7. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

9. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) Shame.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Humility.

10. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 34.
(b) 31.
(c) 27.
(d) 24.

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

12. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Lerince.
(b) Verquin.
(c) Courval.
(d) Senneval.

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

14. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Lie.
(b) History.
(c) Myth.
(d) Novel.

15. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Wilde.
(c) Laclos.
(d) Thackeray .