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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 immoral.
(b) It is redundant.
(c) It is cumbersome.
(d) It is too painless.

2. What does slander ensure, according to the pamphleteer?
(a) Individual rectitude.
(b) Business savvy.
(c) Group credulity.
(d) Thoroughness in the press.

3. What does theft ensure, according to the pamphleteer?
(a) Lack of materialism.
(b) Bank security.
(c) Even division of wealth.
(d) Nothing.

4. How does Eugenie respond to Madame de Mistival's arrival at the beginning of the Final Dialogue?
(a) She laughs maniacally.
(b) She hides.
(c) She weeps in repentance.
(d) She curses her.

5. Why is Augustin initially hesitant to ravish Eugenie in the Fifth Dialogue?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) She looks disdainfully on him.
(c) She is high born.
(d) He is homosexual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the essential value of murder, according to the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?

2. According to the pamphleteer, what do Revolutionaries risk if they return to the Christian God?

3. What does the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans suggest the state religion be based upon?

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

5. In this section, Dolmance says that every man is a despot when?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Dolmance awed by Augustin in this section?

3. Why does the author of the pamphlet reject the notion of laws as important to order?

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

5. What is the only purpose of friendship, according to Dolmance?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does the author of the pamphlet favor the Olympian gods?

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