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

2. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
(a) 5,000 francs.
(b) 15,000 francs.
(c) 10,000 francs.
(d) 25,000 francs.

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1753.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1771.

4. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were lost.
(b) They were stolen.
(c) They were banned.
(d) They were burned.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Florville during the action of the story?

2. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?

3. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

4. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

5. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

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

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

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

6. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

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

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

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

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

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