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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 name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Myth.
(b) Novel.
(c) Lie.
(d) History.

2. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?
(a) Restif.
(b) Milton.
(c) Spenser.
(d) Cleland.

3. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?
(a) "Les Crimes de L'Amour."
(b) "Retaliation."
(c) "L'Instituteur Philosophe."
(d) "Le Cocu de Lui-même."

4. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sade.
(c) Sin.
(d) Adam.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?

2. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

3. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

4. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?

5. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Courval do to find a new wife?

5. Why did man write novels?

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

7. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

8. What did Sade state about Vileterque's response to "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

9. Describe Mademoiselle de Florville.

10. What did Sade say about the effect that "insults directed by jealousy" had on a "man of letters"?

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