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

2. According to Madame de Saint-Ange, what are the only crimes a braggart does not confess to?
(a) Theft and Murder.
(b) Torture and Adultery.
(c) Incest and Rape.
(d) Buggery and Envy.

3. Why does the author disapprove of the death penalty?
(a) It is too painless.
(b) It is immoral.
(c) It is cumbersome.
(d) It is redundant.

4. Who assists Dolmance in stitching up Madame de Mistival's vagina and anal sphincter in the Final Dialogue?
(a) Euguenie.
(b) Lapierre.
(c) Chevalier.
(d) Augustin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What act does Madame de Saint-Ange commit in this section that inflames Dolmance?

2. What class of animal will not copulate unless he thinks he is alone?

3. According to Dolmance in this section, what is nature unconcerned with?

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

5. Which of the following acts is not enacted in The Bedroom Philosophers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to the author of the pamphlet, what is the value of suicide?

3. What trepidations does Augustin have at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Dolmance conclude his argument with Chevalier in this section?

9. How is Chevalier's argument in this section atypical of the rest of the text?

10. What arrives for the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?

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