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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the second section of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?
(a) Morals.
(b) Religion.
(c) Desire.
(d) Democracy.

2. What does the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans suggest the state religion be based upon?
(a) The Torah.
(b) The Kama Sutra.
(c) De Sade's writings.
(d) The Olympian gods.

3. What arrives in the boudoir at the beginning of the Sixth Dialogue?
(a) News of Danton's execution.
(b) A repast for supper.
(c) A collection of ancient dildos.
(d) A missive from Eugenie's father.

4. At the end of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans, the author calls on France to become a beacon of what?
(a) Reason.
(b) Passion.
(c) Love.
(d) Hope.

5. What does Dolmance use to revive Madame de Mival after she passes out?
(a) Thorns.
(b) Smelling salts.
(c) A whip.
(d) His penis.

6. According to Dolmance, what naturally follows desire?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Disease.
(d) Madness.

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

8. According to Dolmance at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue. what is the best way that woman can serve nature?
(a) Prostituting herself.
(b) Foregoing food.
(c) Renouncing religion.
(d) Murdering peasants.

9. Which of the following does the pamphleteer not defend as egalitarian expression?
(a) Rape.
(b) Sodomy.
(c) Incest.
(d) Blasphemy.

10. According to Dolmance in this section, why are all kings tyrants?
(a) They fear they will lose their place in society.
(b) They were designated by God.
(c) They do not acknowledge weakness.
(d) They are inbred.

11. According to the pamphlet's author, what do totalitarian rulers use God for?
(a) Spiritual guidance.
(b) Washing away their sins.
(c) Issuing edicts.
(d) Gaining money.

12. Who does Dolmance take into the other room at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?
(a) Chevalier.
(b) Eugenie.
(c) Augustin.
(d) Madame de Saint-Ange.

13. How does the pamphleteer define suicide?
(a) An abomination.
(b) A matter for God.
(c) A stupid choice.
(d) An individual right.

14. What class of animal will not copulate unless he thinks he is alone?
(a) Dromedary.
(b) Primate.
(c) Mollusk.
(d) Marsupial.

15. Why is Madame de Mistival's body already bruised?
(a) She is a devoted libertine.
(b) She fell on Madame de Saint-Ange's stairs.
(c) She is deeply ill.
(d) She was beaten by her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dolmance in this section, laws are written for whom?

2. What permission does Eugenie's father give the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?

3. In the end of the Fifth Dialogue, Chevalier argues that Dolmance would not be so callous if what happened?

4. What does Eugenie demand at the end of this section?

5. Which libertine is not in the boudoir at the beginning of the Sixth Dialogue?

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