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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour and Sade's Reply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Machiavelli.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Blangis.
(b) Curval.
(c) Duc.
(d) Hebe.

3. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.
(a) Happy.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Pathetic.
(d) Repentant.

4. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Joseph de Maistre.
(b) Hobes.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Locke.

5. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.
(a) Triumphant.
(b) Successful.
(c) Accepted.
(d) As Nature wanted.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

2. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

3. With what people did the novel originate?

4. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

5. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?

(see the answer key)

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