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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Courval is told that Florville is related to ______________.

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

3. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

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

5. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Sade believe that the original and eternal Nature existed?

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

4. What was the contradiction that Villeterque set up regarding glory, virtue, and villainy?

5. Why is Courval considering remarrying?

6. What did Klossowski quote from "The 120 Days of Sodom" regarding happiness?

7. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

8. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

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

10. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Women have fought over Sade's writing. Angela Carter ("The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography" (1979)) believed Sade to be a "moral pornographer." Andrea Dworkin ("Pornography: Men Possessing Women" (1979)) saw Sade as the model of the "woman-hating pornographer." With whom do you agree? Did Sade hate women, or did he create a "special place" for women in the lives of men?

Essay Topic 2

Do you believe that Sade appropriately defended himself in his response to Villeterque? In what ways did Sade appropriately defend himself? In what ways did he fail to defend himself? Do you believe that Sade wrote the best response that he could to Villeterque? Why/Why not?

Essay Topic 3

Do you agree with Villeterque's point of view on Sade's writings? Why/Why not? With what part of his statements do you agree? Why? With what part of his statements do you disagree? Why?

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