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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 separates to lazy from the industrious.
(b) It allows him to eat more.
(c) It creates manure.
(d) It reduces the population.

2. According to Sade in To the Libertines, what is the only way one can find transcendence?
(a) Making love to de Sade.
(b) Abandoning the shackles of family.
(c) Sacrificing oneself to sensual pleasure.
(d) Killing those below oneself.

3. In To the Libertines, what does Sade promise to all of those who follow his precepts?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Damnation.
(c) Salvation.
(d) Agony.

4. In this section, why does Dolmance insist that Madame de Saint-Ange hurry in her lesson to Eugenie?
(a) He wants to sodomize her.
(b) He wants to introduce Chevalier.
(c) He thinks she is a poor instructor.
(d) He wants to orgasm.

5. What corporal punishment does Dolmance administer to Eugenie early in the Third Dialogue?
(a) Spanking.
(b) Dripping hot wax.
(c) Whipping.
(d) Tying down.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Third Dialogue, what function of the human body does Dolmance refuse to discuss?

2. Which character present or discussed in the First Dialogue is a stand-in for the Marquis de Sade?

3. What term does the Marquis de Sade use to refer to his readers in the beginning of his Introduction?

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

5. According to Madame in the Third Dialogue, what is the psychological effect of semen's operation in conception?

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