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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifth Dialogue, Part Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Instructing Eugenie on the precautions she must take as a wanton woman, Madame tell her to do what regularly?
(a) Sleep with her husband.
(b) Douche herself.
(c) Sleep with women.
(d) Have an abortion.

2. What word does Dolmance excoriate as meaningless at the beginning of this section?
(a) Evil.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Love.
(d) Devotion.

3. Why does Dolmance decry marriage in particular?
(a) It involves state intervention.
(b) It forces individuals to forgo pleasure.
(c) It is a Church creation.
(d) It removes two sexual partners from the market.

4. The only useful union between two people, according to Dolmance, is what?
(a) Postmortem.
(b) Familial.
(c) Coital.
(d) Monetary.

5. Through Dolmance in the Third Dialogue, Sade advocates the destruction of what?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Social mores.
(c) Children.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Third Dialogue, what topic does Eugenie broach that makes Dolmance scoff and chastise her?

2. At the end of this section, Dolmance says that a libertine's ultimate fidelity is to what?

3. When does Madame de Saint-Ange say a women must tell her husband she is taking lovers?

4. What does Madame offer Dolmance in this section, that he refuses?

5. According to the pamphleteer, what do Revolutionaries risk if they return to the Christian God?

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