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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. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mother.
(c) His mistress.
(d) His wife.

2. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Sin.
(b) Societal aversions.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Hope.

3. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 53.
(b) 42.
(c) 47.
(d) 65.

4. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Perversion.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Lust.

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's mother.
(b) An inspector.
(c) Sade's mother-in-law.
(d) Sade's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

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

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

4. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

5. According to Sade, the truly honest man refuses to deal in ____________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Sade believe that the original and eternal Nature existed?

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

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

4. Why did man write novels?

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

6. What did Klossowski state that Sade believed regarding "Nature in a state of perpetual motion"?

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

8. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

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

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