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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, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?
(a) Moors.
(b) Spaniards.
(c) English.
(d) Romans.

2. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Woman.
(c) God.
(d) Man.

3. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Courval.
(b) Senneval.
(c) Lerince.
(d) Verquin.

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) Democracy.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Sadness.

5. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.
(a) Guilty.
(b) Pathetic.
(c) Repentant.
(d) Happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month was Sade married?

2. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

3. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

4. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?

5. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did Sade state that he did not want to make vice attractive in his writings?

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

8. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

9. Why did man write novels?

10. Why did Villeterque state that Sade held "erroneous opinions"?

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