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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. How does the pamphleteer define suicide?
(a) A stupid choice.
(b) An abomination.
(c) A matter for God.
(d) An individual right.

2. What arrives in the boudoir at the beginning of the Sixth Dialogue?
(a) A repast for supper.
(b) A collection of ancient dildos.
(c) A missive from Eugenie's father.
(d) News of Danton's execution.

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

4. Dolmance believes all laws are a crime against whom?
(a) Eros.
(b) God.
(c) The aristocracy.
(d) The individual.

5. Why did Eugenie's father send her to the libertines?
(a) He wants her to leave his house.
(b) He wants her to murder Madame de Mistival.
(c) He wants to pay a debt to Dolmance.
(d) He wants an incestuous relationship with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Madame de Mistival's body already bruised?

2. Why does Dolmance decry marriage in particular?

3. What is the first subheading of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?

4. What is Lapierre infected with?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What transpires at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?

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

7. How does Eugenie's reaction to her mother in the beginning of the Final Dialogue reflect a change in her character?

8. How does Dolmance explain his vile character in this section?

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

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

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