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

2. According to Sade, the truly honest man refuses to deal in ____________.
(a) Hearsay.
(b) Trust.
(c) Proof.
(d) Fact.

3. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of "painting" ____________.
(a) Crimes.
(b) Customs.
(c) Sin.
(d) Violence.

4. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Christmas.
(b) All Hallow's Eve.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Easter.

5. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The miracle pageant writers.
(b) The prose writers.
(c) The troubadours.
(d) The satirists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

2. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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

4. With what people did the novel originate?

5. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

9. According to Beauvoir, what was Sade like at the age of twenty-three?

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

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