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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 many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

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

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

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

5. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Man.
(c) Woman.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what people did the novel originate?

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

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

4. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?

5. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

2. According to Sade, how did Villeterque use "out of context isolated phrases"?

3. What was the contradiction that Villeterque set up regarding glory, virtue, and villainy?

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

5. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

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

7. What do Sade's admirers admit about Sade's work?

8. What does Florville require of Courval before she will agree to marry him?

9. Where did Sade believe that the original and eternal Nature existed?

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

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