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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 was a criminal.
(b) Sade was maladjusted.
(c) Sade was bipolar.
(d) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.

2. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(b) To put forth new knowledge.
(c) To admonish culture.
(d) To create law.

3. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Accepted.
(c) Successful.
(d) As Nature wanted.

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

5. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Shame.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) Humility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

3. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?

4. In what month was Sade married?

5. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

2. What two things does the "arranger" believe Florville has that count against her?

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

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

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

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

7. Why did man write novels?

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

9. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

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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