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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. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Indirect.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Proportionate.

2. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.
(a) Repentance.
(b) Virtue alone.
(c) Sin alone.
(d) Loneliness with another.

3. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 780.
(b) 86.
(c) 200.
(d) 600.

4. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?
(a) Hack writer.
(b) Dismissed.
(c) Criminal.
(d) Sinner.

5. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?
(a) Restif.
(b) Milton.
(c) Cleland.
(d) Spenser.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.

2. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

4. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

5. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.

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