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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the central lie regarding laws that the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans dissects in this section?
2. What does Dolmance use to revive Madame de Mival after she passes out?
3. According to Dolmance in this section, why are all kings tyrants?
4. How does Dolmance believe his contemporaries would describe him?
5. How does Dolmance physically stimulate Augustin at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arrives for the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?
2. In this section, how does Dolmance downgrade humanity's importance in his defense of sodomy?
3. How is the very end of The Bedroom Philosophers incongruous with what preceded it?
4. How does Eugenie's reaction to her mother in the beginning of the Final Dialogue reflect a change in her character?
5. What proclamation regarding crime does Dolmance make at the beginning of this section?
6. What new institutions does the pamphleteer recommend establishing?
7. What is the only true connection between two people, according to Dolmance in this section?
8. According to Dolmance in this section, how does nature disprove the existence of vice?
9. What argument does Dolmance regarding the human heart in the beginning of this section?
10. What trepidations does Augustin have at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The dialogues of The Bedroom Philosophers are intended to be perversions of Socratic dialogues, in which a philosopher takes a given dictum and dissects it, disproving it piece by piece. In an essay, choose one dialogue and discuss how the libertine dissects a given social more. What component of society is the character refuting? What does he or she find at fault in it? How does he or she disprove this fault, and what conclusion is reached?
Essay Topic 2
In a point-counterpoint essay, determine what the Marquis de Sade would be satirizing if The Bedroom Philosophers were satire. Would his targets be the French aristocracy? The Revolution? Is it more reasonable to believe that he intends the text as a critique of excess? Discuss, on the other hand, what Sade's goal would be if the text were earnest. What evidence from his personal life would contend that the book should be taken straight?
Essay Topic 3
In an essay, discuss the character of Dolmance. What roles does he undertake over the course of Sade's work? Discuss the points at which he lectures and organizes the libertines and the points at which he takes part in proceedings? What activities does he insist upon? What activities does he abstain from? Discuss, in conclusion, whether he is intended to be a godlike character or a demon. Is his role more ambiguous than either of them?
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