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

2. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1796.
(d) 1799.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?

2. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

3. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

4. In what month was Sade married?

5. With what people did the novel originate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sade state that he did not want to make vice attractive in his writings?

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

3. What was the description of Sade from March 1793?

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

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

6. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

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

9. Why did man write novels?

10. Why did Villeterque state that he would only address one of the questions that Sade posed in "Reflections on the Novel"?

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