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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the maximum number of penises that Madame de Saint-Ange theorizes a woman could handle at one time?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 45.
(d) 12.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What letter does Chevalier use to denote the friend who introduced her to Dolmance?

2. According to Dolmance, what separates the understanding of virtue and vice?

3. In the Third Dialogue, what topic does Eugenie broach that makes Dolmance scoff and chastise her?

4. What word does Dolmance excoriate as meaningless at the beginning of this section?

5. Who does Sade recommend his young girl readers emulate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between Madame de Saint-Ange and the Chevalier?

2. What sexual acts are covered in this section of the book?

3. What odd and incorrect theories of conception are discussed in the Third Dialogue?

4. What hypothetical sexual inundation do Dolmance and Madame concoct in the Fourth Dialogue?

5. What pattern of sexual arrangements emerges in the Third Dialogue?

6. How is Madame de Saint-Ange acquainted with Eugenie?

7. According to Sade in To the Philosphers, what is the key to happiness?

8. How does Dolmance decry religion in this section?

9. What is the value of blasphemy to the libertine?

10. At the beginning of this section, what argument does Dolmance make regarding virtue?

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