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

2. Who assists Dolmance in stitching up Madame de Mistival's vagina and anal sphincter in the Final Dialogue?
(a) Chevalier.
(b) Euguenie.
(c) Augustin.
(d) Lapierre.

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

4. Which libertine is not in the boudoir at the beginning of the Sixth Dialogue?
(a) Madame de Saint-Ange.
(b) Dolmance.
(c) Eugenie.
(d) Chevalier.

5. What do the libertines adjourn to do at the end of The Bedroom Philosophers?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Make love.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dolmance order to strip Madame de Mistival in the Final Dialogue?

2. What does Eugenie cease to believe in after being sodomized?

3. In this section, what does Dolmance claim the heart does?

4. What does Dolmance use to revive Madame de Mival after she passes out?

5. According to Dolmance in this section, laws are written for whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What argument for the pamphleteer offer regarding death and capital punishment?

2. How does sexual fluid give way to blood at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?

3. What argument does Dolmance regarding the human heart in the beginning of this section?

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

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

6. What arrives for the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?

7. Why does the author of the pamphlet favor the Olympian gods?

8. How does Dolmance conclude his argument with Chevalier in this section?

9. What is the cumulative value of madame de Saint-Ange's inundation in the Fifth Dialogue?

10. What new institutions does the pamphleteer recommend establishing?

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