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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Prayer and love.
(b) Desire and need.
(c) Lust and love.
(d) Prayer and desire.

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

3. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were banned.
(b) They were burned.
(c) They were stolen.
(d) They were lost.

4. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he multiplies.
(b) When he sins against Nature.
(c) When he sins against God.
(d) When he sins against mankind.

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

6. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?
(a) Hera.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Nyx.
(d) Minerva.

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

8. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Humility.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Shame.
(d) Prayer.

9. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) All Hallow's Eve.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Year's.

10. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?
(a) Her birth.
(b) Her modesty.
(c) Her sin.
(d) Her religion.

11. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sade.
(c) Adam.
(d) Sin.

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

13. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Les Antiquaires."
(b) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(c) "Oxtiern."
(d) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."

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

15. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Almani.
(d) Farady.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

2. At what "level" did Freud look at life?

3. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?

4. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?

5. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

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