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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the pamphleteer, what do Revolutionaries risk if they return to the Christian God?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The end of a pluralist society.
(c) Loss of rights.
(d) A rejection of Christianity.

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

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

4. According to Dolmance in this section, what is pleasure in its highest point?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Death.
(c) Orgasm.
(d) Rage.

5. What is the essential value of murder, according to the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?
(a) It ensures common respect.
(b) It sends souls to heaven.
(c) It is the instrument of the Revolution.
(d) It is an unnatural act.

6. According to Dolmance in this section, laws are written for whom?
(a) Judges.
(b) The kingdom of heaven.
(c) Barbarians.
(d) The general populace.

7. In this section, what does Chevalier claim is still pure in him?
(a) His heart.
(b) His semen.
(c) His eyesight.
(d) His mind.

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

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

10. Who does Dolmance call near the end of this section?
(a) Eugenie's Father.
(b) Madame de Mistival.
(c) Augustin.
(d) V.

11. Which character does not have vaginal intercourse in The Bedroom Philosophers?
(a) Lapierre.
(b) Augustin.
(c) Chevalier.
(d) Dolmance.

12. What does Dolmance equate goodness with in this section?
(a) Frailty.
(b) Nothingness.
(c) Quaintness.
(d) Dominance.

13. Dolmance believes all laws are a crime against whom?
(a) Eros.
(b) The aristocracy.
(c) God.
(d) The individual.

14. How does Augustin's penis compare to the others in the boudoir?
(a) It is the largest.
(b) It is the smallest.
(c) It is larger than Dolmance's, but not Chevalier's.
(d) It is the same size as Dolmance's.

15. In his outburst in the end of Fifth Dialogue, Chevalier argues that the poor are what?
(a) Saints.
(b) Animals.
(c) Human beings.
(d) Degenerates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second section of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?

2. Who does Dolmance order to stoke him in this section of the Fifth Dialogue?

3. In their argument regarding empathy and weakness, who are Dolmance and Chevalier trying to convince?

4. What does Madame offer Dolmance in this section, that he refuses?

5. Why is Madame de Mistival's body already bruised?

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