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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. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
2. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
3. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?
4. In what novel did Sade say virtue was best rewarded?
5. How old is Florville during the action of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Mademoiselle de Florville.
2. What do Sade's admirers admit about Sade's work?
3. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?
4. According to Beauvoir, what was Sade like at the age of twenty-three?
5. What did Sade say about the effect that "insults directed by jealousy" had on a "man of letters"?
6. What did Sade say that Voltaire did when he wrote?
7. What did Klossowski quote from "The 120 Days of Sodom" regarding happiness?
8. What does Florville require of Courval before she will agree to marry him?
9. What were Sade's beliefs about giving the title of "novel" to a written work?
10. According to Sade, how did Villeterque use "out of context isolated phrases"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did you find yourself reacting to the text as you read it? What were your concerns? Did you believe that you were prepared to read the text and find that you were, in fact, not? Or, did you find that you were more than prepared for the material presented in the text because of the more lax societal views on sexual "deviancy" today?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Why do you believe that the "Passions" moved from "complex" to "criminal" to "murderous"? What was the progression? What changed as the "Passions" progressed? Why do you believe the "Passions" changed?
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