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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many of Madame's own children has she killed?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 0.
(d) 3.

3. Why does Dolmance decry marriage in particular?
(a) It removes two sexual partners from the market.
(b) It involves state intervention.
(c) It is a Church creation.
(d) It forces individuals to forgo pleasure.

4. At the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue, to what does Dolmance compare Augustin's phallus?
(a) A stalagtite.
(b) A geyser.
(c) A serpent.
(d) A cannon.

5. To what iconic literary figure does Chevalier compare himself and his sister in the First Dialogue?
(a) Don Quixote.
(b) Oedipus Rex.
(c) Aneas.
(d) Hamlet.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dolmance in this section, what is nature unconcerned with?

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

3. Which of the following groups is not one that Sade refers to specifically in To the Libertines?

4. What is the value of starvation, according to Dolmance in the Third Dialogue?

5. According to Dolmance, what naturally follows desire?

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