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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Eugenie's hair?
(a) Dirty blonde.
(b) Black.
(c) Auburn.
(d) Chestnut.

2. Near the end of this section, Dolmance discusses his libertine friends seducing who?
(a) Mental patients.
(b) Grandchildren.
(c) Nuns.
(d) Animals.

3. What order does Dolmance give Eugenie regarding their devious plan in the coming days?
(a) Return to the convent.
(b) Get close to her mother.
(c) Add arsenic to the family port.
(d) Seduce a sevant in the house.

4. Through Dolmance in the Third Dialogue, Sade advocates the destruction of what?
(a) Children.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Social mores.
(d) The poor.

5. According to Madame de Sainte-Ange in the First Dialogue, what is Dolmance's preferred sex act?
(a) Sodomy.
(b) Fellatio.
(c) Vaginal intercourse.
(d) Cunnilingus.

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

7. Who is the first character to begin kissing and caressing Eugenie?
(a) Dolmance.
(b) Augustin.
(c) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(d) Chevalier.

8. During Chevalier's Fourth Dialogue demonstration, what does Dolmance charge Eugenie to trample?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Monogamy.
(c) Wantonness.
(d) Modesty.

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

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

11. What decor of Madame de Saint-Ange's boudoir arouses curiosity from Eugenie in the Third Dialogue?
(a) Decorative whips.
(b) Lace curtains.
(c) Hanging straps.
(d) Mirrors.

12. In the Fourth Dialogue, Eugenie says her new god is what?
(a) Nothingness.
(b) Lust.
(c) Dolmance.
(d) Satan.

13. In the Fourth Dialogue, who penetrates Dolmance with a dildo?
(a) Eugenie.
(b) Chevalier.
(c) Augustin
(d) Madame de Saint-Ange.

14. Which of the following groups is not one that Sade refers to specifically in To the Libertines?
(a) Profligates.
(b) Women.
(c) Girls.
(d) Clergy.

15. Which body part does Madame de Saint-Ange recommend using to help a man to orgasm in this section?
(a) Stomach.
(b) Foot.
(c) Hair.
(d) Armpit.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dolmance, what is the most pleasurable sexual act?

2. How does Dolmance characterize the poor at the end of this section?

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

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

5. According to Madame de Saint-Ange in this section, what is the surest way for a wanton woman to avoid pregnancy?

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