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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this section, which historical figure does Madame de Saint-Ange use as an example of lasciviousness?
(a) Messalina.
(b) Cleopatra.
(c) Catherine the Great.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

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

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

4. In the beginning of the Third Dialogue, what does Madame de Saint-Ange explain to Eugenie?
(a) The anal cavity.
(b) The penis.
(c) The nipples.
(d) The vagina.

5. According to Dolmance, what is the most preferable type of virtue?
(a) Satanic virtue.
(b) False virtue.
(c) Masochistic virtue.
(d) Anti-virtue.

6. According to Sade in To the Libertines, what is the only way one can find transcendence?
(a) Abandoning the shackles of family.
(b) Killing those below oneself.
(c) Making love to de Sade.
(d) Sacrificing oneself to sensual pleasure.

7. What does Madame's elderly husband force her to consume?
(a) Feces.
(b) Duck.
(c) Blood.
(d) Semen.

8. According to Dolmance in the Fourth Dialogue, mankind was created to be what?
(a) Naked.
(b) Polygamous.
(c) Poor.
(d) Wicked.

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

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

11. How many days is Eugenie intending to stay with Madame de Saint-Ange?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

12. Which style of copulation is not demonstrated in this section?
(a) Masturbation.
(b) Anal sex.
(c) Cunnilingus.
(d) Fellatio.

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

14. With whom does Madame de Saint-Ange intend Eugenie to break her hymen?
(a) Augustin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Dolmance.
(d) Chevalier.

15. How many people are involved in the sexual tryst Chevalier first engages in with Dolmance, as related in the First Dialogue?
(a) 5.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chevalier declare Eugenie to be in the beginning of the Fourth Dialogue?

2. Which Roman emperor does Dolmance cite at the end of the Third Dialogue?

3. When does Madame de Saint-Ange say a women must tell her husband she is taking lovers?

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

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

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