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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?
(a) 50.
(b) 55.
(c) 45.
(d) 60.

5. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a creative evolutionist.
(b) Being a destroyer.
(c) Being an accuser.
(d) Being a forgiver.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Villeterque accused Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson of saying that the way to happiness was _______________.

3. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

4. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Sade state about Vileterque's response to "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

2. According to Pierre Klossowski, why could God be viewed as "the original guilty party"?

3. What did Sade say about the effect that "insults directed by jealousy" had on a "man of letters"?

4. What did Klossowski quote from "The 120 Days of Sodom" regarding happiness?

5. Why did Villeterque state that he would only address one of the questions that Sade posed in "Reflections on the Novel"?

6. What did Sade say that Voltaire did when he wrote?

7. Why did Villeterque state that Sade held "erroneous opinions"?

8. What does Florville require of Courval before she will agree to marry him?

9. According to Sade, how did Villeterque use "out of context isolated phrases"?

10. According to Beauvoir, what was Sade like at the age of twenty-three?

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