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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Dolmance, Christianity is just a newer form of what?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Roman rule.
(c) Pagan religion.
(d) Slavery.

3. According to Dolmance, what does God have no reason to do?
(a) Care about humanity.
(b) Damn people to Hell.
(c) Forbid homosexuality.
(d) Let people live comfortably.

4. According to Madame in the Third Dialogue, what is the psychological effect of semen's operation in conception?
(a) Men must copulate constantly.
(b) Children love their fathers more.
(c) Women yearn to have a penis.
(d) Women desire to drink semen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section of the Third Dialogue, what does Eugenie forswear?

2. According to Dolmance, what separates the understanding of virtue and vice?

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

4. Who does Sade recommend his young girl readers emulate?

5. What role models does Dolmance detest vocally regarding his virtue-vice argument?

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