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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 did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By insuring that her works become immortal.
(b) By forging forward at all costs.
(c) By forgetting who she is completely.
(d) By destroying her own works.

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

3. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against God.
(b) When he multiplies.
(c) When he sins against Nature.
(d) When he sins against mankind.

4. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and violence.
(b) Foulness and violence.
(c) Resentment and violence.
(d) Hatred and sadism.

5. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Unbalanced.
(b) Proportionate.
(c) Indirect.
(d) Misleading.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?

2. How many children does Courval have?

3. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

4. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

5. In what month was Sade married?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

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

7. Why did man write novels?

8. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

10. Describe Mademoiselle de Florville.

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