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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

2. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

4. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

5. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Sade's last wish to be respected?

2. What did Sade believe regarding motion?

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

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

5. What did Klossowski state that Sade believed regarding "Nature in a state of perpetual motion"?

6. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade fear?

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

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

9. Why did man write novels?

10. What did the writings of Crebillion speak about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While it is a fact that Sade's writing was banned for close to 170 years in France, it was also banned in England and the United States. Why do you think that the ban was lifted on the text? What about the text did some find worthy of lifting the ban? Would you have lifted the ban? Why/Why not?

Essay Topic 2

Although Sade was an atheist, do you think that he believed himself to be "god-like" or divine? What qualities did he show that would cause one to believe that Sade carried himself like a god? Or, do you believe that Sade thought himself to be simply mortal? Why?

Essay Topic 3

In an age where technology reigns supreme, people are mystified and obsessed with criminals. This is evidenced by television shows which feature serial killers and movies that are meant to disgust and frighten. Do you think that society is ready for Sade? Why/Why not?

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