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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dolmance equate goodness with in this section?
(a) Frailty.
(b) Quaintness.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Nothingness.

2. In this section, what does Dolmance claim the heart does?
(a) Deceives.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Speaks truth.
(d) Produces life.

3. In their argument regarding empathy and weakness, who are Dolmance and Chevalier trying to convince?
(a) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(b) Each other.
(c) Eugenie.
(d) Augustin.

4. What does the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans suggest the state religion be based upon?
(a) The Olympian gods.
(b) The Torah.
(c) De Sade's writings.
(d) The Kama Sutra.

5. Which of the following characters is not involved in plotting the education of Eugenie?
(a) Eugenie's father.
(b) Madame de Mistival.
(c) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(d) Dolmance.

6. According to Dolmance in this section, how do lovers view their love?
(a) They are blinded by it.
(b) They ignore it.
(c) They romanticize it.
(d) They mourn it.

7. How does Eugenie respond to Madame de Mistival's arrival at the beginning of the Final Dialogue?
(a) She hides.
(b) She laughs maniacally.
(c) She curses her.
(d) She weeps in repentance.

8. What is the second section of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans?
(a) Religion.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Desire.
(d) Morals.

9. Why does the author disapprove of the death penalty?
(a) It is cumbersome.
(b) It is redundant.
(c) It is immoral.
(d) It is too painless.

10. What act does Madame de Saint-Ange commit in this section that inflames Dolmance?
(a) Vomiting.
(b) Defecation.
(c) Flatulence.
(d) Urination.

11. What does Dolmance claim that Chevalier lacks at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?
(a) Intellect.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Experience.
(d) Virility.

12. How does Dolmance believe his contemporaries would describe him?
(a) Lascivious.
(b) Hypocritical.
(c) Decent.
(d) Domineering.

13. What does Madame offer Dolmance in this section, that he refuses?
(a) Her mouth.
(b) Her hands.
(c) Her anus.
(d) Her vagina.

14. What is the only reason to love one's parents, according to Dolmance?
(a) If they are sexually satisfying.
(b) If they have money.
(c) If they treat one well.
(d) If they are dying.

15. What is the first form of love that Dolmance decries in this section?
(a) Familial love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Love of self.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dolmance call near the end of this section?

2. According to Madame de Saint-Ange, what are the only crimes a braggart does not confess to?

3. In this section of the Fifth Dialogue, what specifically does Dolmance say is a false construct?

4. Which character does Dolmance send to escort Madame de Mistival home at the end of the Final Dialogue?

5. What is Augustin's first request regarding Eugenie in the Fifth Dialogue?

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