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

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

3. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade was maladjusted.
(b) Sade was a criminal.
(c) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(d) Sade was bipolar.

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

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) A brothel.
(b) His bed.
(c) His home.
(d) In prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

2. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?

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

4. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.

5. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Sade's admirers admit about Sade's work?

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

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

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

5. Why did man write novels?

6. Through what "relationship" does Sade "compel our attention"?

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

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

9. Why did Sade state that he did not want to make vice attractive in his writings?

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

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