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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many children does Courval have?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

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

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

5. Courval is told that Florville is related to ______________.
(a) Saint-Prat.
(b) Dienteur.
(c) Marcus Flind.
(d) St. Pierre.

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

7. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mistress.
(c) His mother.
(d) His wife.

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

9. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?
(a) 19.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 16.

10. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?
(a) 500 francs a year.
(b) Nothing.
(c) 4,000 francs a year.
(d) 2,000 francs a year.

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

12. In what month was Sade married?
(a) October.
(b) July.
(c) June.
(d) May.

13. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The prose writers.
(b) The satirists.
(c) The troubadours.
(d) The miracle pageant writers.

14. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Flogging.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Eroticism.
(d) Drinking.

15. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) An original and eternal Nature.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Florville during the action of the story?

2. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

3. What did Sade believe Villeterque's insults were "dictated by"?

4. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

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

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