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

2. What laws does the author of the pamphlet think should be instituted to ensure duty to God?
(a) Laws only applied to the poor.
(b) Laws comparable to Oliver Cromwell's.
(c) None.
(d) Laws exempting churches from taxation.

3. Why is Madame de Mistival's body already bruised?
(a) She is deeply ill.
(b) She fell on Madame de Saint-Ange's stairs.
(c) She is a devoted libertine.
(d) She was beaten by her husband.

4. According to Dolmance in this section, laws are written for whom?
(a) Barbarians.
(b) The kingdom of heaven.
(c) The general populace.
(d) Judges.

5. What is Lapierre infected with?
(a) Pubic lice.
(b) Syphillis.
(c) Herpes.
(d) Chlamydia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Augustin's first request regarding Eugenie in the Fifth Dialogue?

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

4. The only useful union between two people, according to Dolmance, is what?

5. Who does Dolmance take into the other room at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. How is Dolmance awed by Augustin in this section?

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