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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. What promise do Madame de Saint-Ange and Dolmance make Eugenie at the beginning of this section?
(a) To preserve her virginity until the Cevalier arrives.
(b) To help her plan a murder.
(c) To get her out of her parent's house.
(d) To secure her a private honorarium.

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

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

4. According to Madame in the Third Dialogue, what is the psychological effect of semen's operation in conception?
(a) Children love their fathers more.
(b) Men must copulate constantly.
(c) Women yearn to have a penis.
(d) Women desire to drink semen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In To the Libertines, what does Sade promise to all of those who follow his precepts?

2. According to Dolmance, what attribute offers the best chance of success in life?

3. Which style of copulation is not demonstrated in this section?

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

5. How are Madame de Saint-Ange and Chevlaier connected?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theory regarding large penises does Dolmance posit in the Fourth Dialogue?

2. What skill do women have for cruelty, according to Dolmance at the end of the Third Dialogue?

3. What arrangement does Dolmance create with Chevalier in the Fourth Dialogue?

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

5. How does Chevalier frame Dolamnce's entrance in the First Dialogue?

6. What specific instructions does Sade give his readers about emulating characters in To the Libertines?

7. How does Eugenie decide to murder her mother?

8. Describe Dolmance's attitudes toward the poor.

9. Describe Madame de Saint-Ange's husband.

10. How is the the sexual passage of this section typical of the writing of The Bedroom Philosophers?

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