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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. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(b) To create law.
(c) To admonish culture.
(d) To put forth new knowledge.

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

3. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
(a) The story of her parents.
(b) The adventures of her life.
(c) The story behind her affair.
(d) The story about her finding God.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

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

3. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?

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

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

2. Where did Sade believe that the original and eternal Nature existed?

3. What was the progression of the novel throughout history?

4. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

5. What were Sade's beliefs about giving the title of "novel" to a written work?

6. Describe Mademoiselle de Florville.

7. What was the description of Sade from March 1793?

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

9. What was the contradiction that Villeterque set up regarding glory, virtue, and villainy?

10. In what way did Klossowski believe that Sade looked at man as a competitor of Nature?

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