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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. In this section of the Fifth Dialogue, what specifically does Dolmance say is a false construct?
(a) Vice.
(b) Love.
(c) Disease.
(d) Pleasure.

2. Why is Madame de Mistival's body already bruised?
(a) She was beaten by her husband.
(b) She fell on Madame de Saint-Ange's stairs.
(c) She is a devoted libertine.
(d) She is deeply ill.

3. According to Dolmance in this section, a thing cannot be criminal if it has what?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Passion.
(d) Pleasure.

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

5. According to Dolmance in this section, what is pleasure in its highest point?
(a) Death.
(b) Orgasm.
(c) Rage.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central lie regarding laws that the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans dissects in this section?

2. How does Eugenie respond to Madame de Mistival's arrival at the beginning of the Final Dialogue?

3. Which libertine is not in the boudoir at the beginning of the Sixth Dialogue?

4. What do the libertines adjourn to do at the end of The Bedroom Philosophers?

5. In Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans, what does the author recommend the opening of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How could The Bedroom Philosophers be viewed as satire?

2. Why does Dolmance not break Eugenie's hymen?

3. According to Dolmance in this section, how does nature disprove the existence of vice?

4. Why does the author of the pamphlet reject the notion of laws as important to order?

5. What is the only true connection between two people, according to Dolmance in this section?

6. How does Eugenie's reaction to her mother in the beginning of the Final Dialogue reflect a change in her character?

7. In this section, how does Dolmance downgrade humanity's importance in his defense of sodomy?

8. How is Madame de Mistival punished after her tribunal in the Final Dialogue?

9. What proclamation regarding crime does Dolmance make at the beginning of this section?

10. Why does Dolmance expound on marriage in this section, and what does he say?

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