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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He would be burned for his sins.
(b) He was bound for greatness.
(c) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(d) He was a coward.

2. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's mother-in-law.
(b) Sade's mother.
(c) An inspector.
(d) Sade's wife.

3. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Crime and ounishment.
(d) Sadism.

4. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?
(a) Aberrations of Nature.
(b) Sins against God.
(c) Sinful memories.
(d) Immoral books.

5. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?
(a) Villeterque-the-plagiarist.
(b) Villeterque-the-condemner.
(c) Villeterque-the-swine.
(d) Villeterque-the-sinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many questions did Villeterque state he would "bother with"?

2. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

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

4. According to Sade, the truly honest man refuses to deal in ____________.

5. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

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