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

2. What act does Madame de Saint-Ange commit in this section that inflames Dolmance?
(a) Flatulence.
(b) Defecation.
(c) Urination.
(d) Vomiting.

3. What does Dolmance claim that Chevalier lacks at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Intellect.
(c) Virility.
(d) Experience.

4. 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 is an unnatural act.
(c) It sends souls to heaven.
(d) It is the instrument of the Revolution.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dolmance at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue. what is the best way that woman can serve nature?

2. What laws does the author of the pamphlet think should be instituted to ensure duty to God?

3. What is Lapierre infected with?

4. According to Dolmance in this section, why are all kings tyrants?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is marriage unpatriotic, according to the author?

4. How is the very end of The Bedroom Philosophers incongruous with what preceded it?

5. According to Dolmance in this section, how does nature disprove the existence of vice?

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

7. In this section, how does Dolmance downgrade humanity's importance in his defense of sodomy?

8. How is Madame de Mistival punished after her tribunal in the Final Dialogue?

9. In the Fifth Dialogue, what does Dolmance explain about the law to Eugenie?

10. What is the cumulative value of madame de Saint-Ange's inundation in the Fifth Dialogue?

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