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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. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Eroticism.
(d) Flogging.

2. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year's.
(c) All Hallow's Eve.
(d) Christmas.

3. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
(a) 5,000 francs.
(b) 25,000 francs.
(c) 10,000 francs.
(d) 15,000 francs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

2. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

3. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

4. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

5. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Sade's last wish to be respected?

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

3. In what way did Klossowski believe that Sade looked at man as a competitor of Nature?

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

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

6. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

8. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

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

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

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