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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Florville and Courval.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?
(a) An charmed life.
(b) A secluded life.
(c) A sad life.
(d) A libertine life.

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1753.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1784.

4. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Eros.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Id.
(d) Logic.

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Resentment and violence.
(b) Hatred and sadism.
(c) Foulness and violence.
(d) Hatred and violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

2. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

3. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?

4. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

5. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

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