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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 permission does Eugenie's father give the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?
(a) To keep Eugenie forever.
(b) To send Eugenie home with Madame de Mistival.
(c) To punish Madame de Mistival.
(d) To kill Eugenie.

2. 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) Passion.
(b) Hope.
(c) Reason.
(d) Love.

3. In this section, Dolmance says that every man is a despot when?
(a) When he has an erection.
(b) When he is naked.
(c) When the Revolution is complete.
(d) When he is being served.

4. How does Dolmance believe his contemporaries would describe him?
(a) Hypocritical.
(b) Lascivious.
(c) Domineering.
(d) Decent.

5. How does Dolmance physically stimulate Augustin at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?
(a) He strokes his penis.
(b) He tussels his hair.
(c) He penetrates his anus.
(d) He kisses his neck.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, when does Eugenie state that she notices particular harshness in Dolmance?

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

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

4. What is the first form of love that Dolmance decries in this section?

5. Which of the following does the pamphleteer not defend as egalitarian expression?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprising statement does Chevalier make at the beginning of this section?

2. Why does Dolmance not break Eugenie's hymen?

3. Why does Madame de Mistival pass out in the Final Dialogue?

4. How could The Bedroom Philosophers be viewed as satire?

5. How does sexual fluid give way to blood at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?

6. What is the only true connection between two people, according to Dolmance in this section?

7. What argument does Dolmance regarding the human heart in the beginning of this section?

8. What argument for the pamphleteer offer regarding death and capital punishment?

9. What proclamation regarding crime does Dolmance make at the beginning of this section?

10. Why does Dolmance expound on marriage in this section, and what does he say?

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