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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 does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) Morality.
(b) Libertinage.
(c) God.
(d) Espionage.

2. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1775.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1780.

4. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Balance.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Sadness.

5. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.

2. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

3. At what "level" did Freud look at life?

4. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?

5. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Beauvoir, what was Sade like at the age of twenty-three?

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

4. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

5. What did Klossowski quote from "The 120 Days of Sodom" regarding happiness?

6. What did Sade say that Voltaire did when he wrote?

7. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

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

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

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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