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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?
(a) 19.
(b) 13.
(c) 11.
(d) 16.

2. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Farady.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Almani.
(d) Bacon.

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

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

5. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.
(a) Repentant.
(b) Happy.
(c) Guilty.
(d) Pathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

2. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

3. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?

4. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?

5. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sade say about the effect that "insults directed by jealousy" had on a "man of letters"?

2. What were Sade's beliefs about giving the title of "novel" to a written work?

3. Through what "relationship" does Sade "compel our attention"?

4. According to Pierre Klossowski, why could God be viewed as "the original guilty party"?

5. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

6. What did Sade state about Vileterque's response to "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

7. What does the "arranger" believe will not please Courval about Florville's conduct?

8. What did Klossowski state that Sade believed regarding "Nature in a state of perpetual motion"?

9. What does Courval do to find a new wife?

10. What was the progression of the novel throughout history?

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