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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. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?
2. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?
3. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.
4. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
5. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Sade's admirers admit about Sade's work?
2. In what way did Klossowski believe that Sade looked at man as a competitor of Nature?
3. What were Sade's beliefs about giving the title of "novel" to a written work?
4. What does Florville require of Courval before she will agree to marry him?
5. What did Sade say that Voltaire did when he wrote?
6. Through what "relationship" does Sade "compel our attention"?
7. What was the description of Sade from March 1793?
8. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?
9. What does the "arranger" believe will not please Courval about Florville's conduct?
10. What did Sade believe regarding motion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a critical analysis on Sade's texts. Focus on the material that both critics (included in the text) focused upon. Do you agree with their thoughts? Why? Do you disagree with their thoughts? Why?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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