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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Dolmance like to keep in his house for sexual pleasure?
(a) A small horse.
(b) Five old women.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A servant from India.

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

4. Which character present or discussed in the First Dialogue is a stand-in for the Marquis de Sade?
(a) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(b) Chevalier.
(c) Eugenie.
(d) Dolmance.

5. At the end of the Third Dialogue, what two subjects does Dolmance discuss as being of particular joy to a libertine?
(a) Blasphemy and cruelty.
(b) Selfishness and arrogance.
(c) Sodomy and wealth.
(d) Pain and perversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Madame de Sainte-Ange in the First Dialogue, what is Dolmance's preferred sex act?

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

3. Which of the following is not a recommendation Dolmance makes to Eugenie in this section regarding sodomy?

4. What new attribute to Eugenie's personality in this section shocks Madame?

5. What does Madame's elderly husband force her to consume?

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