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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 offers himself/herself up to the Bishop, given that another has not satisfied him?

2. On the 1st of December, how many tales does Champville tell?

3. What does the narrator say is the second most important city in Sweden?

4. According to Duc during the first day, ______________ are "they who absolutely cannot bear the instant when the illusion is shattered."

5. What does Oxtiern say that he and Herman need to do before they duel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the facts regarding the 150 Criminal Passions?

2. What happens to Narcisse at the supper meal on the First Day?

3. Who are the guests at the first dinner party of the "four libertines"?

4. What does the First Day entail?

5. When Duclos continues her story on the First Day, what questions does Duc have regarding the story?

6. During the sixth week festival in December, what happens?

7. What does Martaine state that she wants to do on the 10th of January?

8. Who assumes the task of the storytelling in December?

9. What are the facts regarding the 150 Complex Passions?

10. Why do Oxtiern and Madame Scholtz scheme to keep Ernestine and Herman apart?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you believe that Sade's writings were pornographic? Or, did he go beyond pornographic for you (as a reader)? Were there specific actions that you would consider "going a little too far"? Or, do you believe that Sade went just far enough?

Essay Topic 2

In "Must We Burn Sade?" Simone de Beauvior stated that he believed that Sade's hatred of his mother was "the key to his life and work." What do you believe this to mean? Given that not much is known about Sade's life as a child, what could one assume that Sade's hatred for his mother was based upon? (Hint: Freud is mentioned in this section. What would Freud say?)

Essay Topic 3

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?

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