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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. How many children does Courval have?
(a) Five.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Blangis.
(b) Curval.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Duc.

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

4. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) A brothel.
(b) In prison.
(c) His bed.
(d) His home.

5. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) One.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

2. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

3. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

4. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

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

6. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

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

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

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

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