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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. Which two libertines penetrate Madame de Saint-Ange in this section?
2. Which of the following does the pamphleteer not defend as egalitarian expression?
3. Why does the author disapprove of the death penalty?
4. What does the author of Frenchmen, Some More Effort if You Wish to Become Republicans suggest the state religion be based upon?
5. Why does Dolmance decry marriage in particular?
Short Essay Questions
1. What arrives for the libertines in the Sixth Dialogue?
2. What is the cumulative value of madame de Saint-Ange's inundation in the Fifth Dialogue?
3. How does Eugenie's reaction to her mother in the beginning of the Final Dialogue reflect a change in her character?
4. What transpires at the end of the Fifth Dialogue?
5. What is the only purpose of friendship, according to Dolmance?
6. According to the author of the pamphlet, what is the value of suicide?
7. How is Madame de Mistival punished after her tribunal in the Final Dialogue?
8. What is the only true connection between two people, according to Dolmance in this section?
9. How does sexual fluid give way to blood at the beginning of the Fifth Dialogue?
10. How is Dolmance awed by Augustin in this section?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Much of the trajectory of The Bedroom Philosophers involves the increasingly deviant sexual endeavors of the libertines. Write a three-part essay about this trajectory, discussing the purpose of this evolution:
Part 1) Why do Dolmance, Chevalier and Madame de Saint-Ange plot the seduction of Eugenie? What lessons do they teach her in the early dialogues, and how do these sexual acts connect to the libertine lifestyle? What does Eugenie learn about this worldview? How does she react, and how does she change?
Part 2) At the end of the Fifth Dialogue, the libertines engage in increasingly deviant sexual behavior. Discuss the acts they engage in immediately after the reading of the pamphlet. How does Dolmance justify his vulgarity and extremity? What is the libertine's purpose in being especially disgusting in sexual acts?
Part 3) Discuss the meaning behind the gang-rape and torture of Madame de Mistival. How is this a culmination of the libertines lessons? How has Eugenie changed over the course of the novel? What has she renounces in the proceedings and how does her violation of her own mother serve as a compact with Dolmance's worldview?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay on the topic of phalli in The Bedroom Philosophers. Discuss the order in which phalli are introduced in the narrative and how one tops the other. How are Dolmance, Chevalier, Augustin and Lapierre's phalli all put to different uses? What are the women's reactions to each? Analyzing the use of phalli in the text, determine what they represent in the world of the novel? Excess? Pleasure? Death?
Essay Topic 3
The dialogues of The Bedroom Philosophers are intended to be perversions of Socratic dialogues, in which a philosopher takes a given dictum and dissects it, disproving it piece by piece. In an essay, choose one dialogue and discuss how the libertine dissects a given social more. What component of society is the character refuting? What does he or she find at fault in it? How does he or she disprove this fault, and what conclusion is reached?
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