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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Dialogue, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the value of starvation, according to Dolmance in the Third Dialogue?
(a) It reduces the population.
(b) It creates manure.
(c) It allows him to eat more.
(d) It separates to lazy from the industrious.

2. Who does Sade recommend his young girl readers emulate?
(a) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(b) Eugenie.
(c) Himself.
(d) Madame de Mistival.

3. How many people are involved in the sexual tryst Chevalier first engages in with Dolmance, as related in the First Dialogue?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. In the Third Dialogue, what topic does Eugenie broach that makes Dolmance scoff and chastise her?
(a) Love.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Conception.

5. In the beginning of the Third Dialogue, what does Madame de Saint-Ange explain to Eugenie?
(a) The vagina.
(b) The anal cavity.
(c) The nipples.
(d) The penis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What letter does Chevalier use to denote the friend who introduced her to Dolmance?

2. In To the Libertines, what does Sade promise to all of those who follow his precepts?

3. According to Dolmance, Christianity is just a newer form of what?

4. What is Eugenie's initial reaction to seeing Dolmance in Madame's boudoir in the Third Dialogue?

5. According to Dolmance, what is the most pleasurable sexual act?

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