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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. Which person is interrupted during their narration and told by the President not to omit any details?

2. On what day is the "First Day"?

3. At what age is Champville "deflowered"?

4. Whose daughter does Duc want to marry?

5. Who is the only man to "discharge" on the morning of the "First Day"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the pairings of the "four libertines"?

2. What are the facts regarding the 150 Murderous Passions?

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

4. What are the stage directions for Act One?

5. What does the Duc require of Curval if he is to allow Curval to marry his daughter Julie?

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

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

8. Why does Oxtiern tell Fabrice that Ernestine's father has not accompanied her on her travels?

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

10. Why does the narrator wish to see the famous mines in Sweden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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