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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fourth Dialogue.

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 reduces the population.
(c) It creates manure.
(d) It allows him to eat more.

2. At the end of this section, Dolmance says that a libertine's ultimate fidelity is to what?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Himself.
(c) Nature.
(d) The anus.

3. What promise do Madame de Saint-Ange and Dolmance make Eugenie at the beginning of this section?
(a) To secure her a private honorarium.
(b) To get her out of her parent's house.
(c) To help her plan a murder.
(d) To preserve her virginity until the Cevalier arrives.

4. According to Dolmance, for a true libertine, every action yields what?
(a) Pain.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Usefulness.

5. How does Dolmance characterize the poor at the end of this section?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Free.
(d) Dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of this section, Dolmance recommends Eugenie get what?

2. In the Fourth Dialogue, what has Madame de Saint-Ange offered 500 sous for?

3. How many people are involved in the sexual tryst Chevalier first engages in with Dolmance, as related in the First Dialogue?

4. In this section of the Third Dialogue, Madame explains to Eugenie the importance of being what?

5. During Chevalier's Fourth Dialogue demonstration, what does Dolmance charge Eugenie to trample?

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