Marquis de Sade - Quiz
A) Political sabotage and arson B) Serial murder and systemic theft C) Beating a housemaid and an orgy with several prostitutes D) Kidnapping and public riots
A) Whether his actions were legally sanctioned at the time B) Whether he was suffering from a mental illness C) Whether the records of his crimes were forged D) Whether one believes Sade or his female accusers
A) More mental than corporeal B) Strictly related to financial greed C) Inherently democratic and inclusive D) Exclusively physical and violent
A) He never expressed opinions in his personal letters B) Sade wrote all his books in a secret code C) The impossibility of distinguishing a single authorial voice D) He was illiterate for most of his adult life
A) For his dedication to religious education B) For his advocacy of absolute monarchy and class structure C) For his denial of the right to property and view that the elites were united against the people D) For his support of international trade and capitalism
A) Theocratic governance B) Anarchism C) Totalitarianism D) Democratic socialism
A) Provide religious sanctuary for the homeless B) Increase government tax revenue from the poor C) Promote gender equality throughout France D) Reduce sex crimes and satisfy the desire to command
A) As a parody of Enlightenment marriage customs B) As a historical critique of feudal practices C) As a system of compulsory prostitution from childhood D) As a charitable initiative for widows
A) As an apology for past crimes B) As a serious call to arms C) As subversive irony D) As a literal guide for governance
A) He was a relentless opportunist B) He was a consistent revolutionary hero C) He was an uncompromising royalist martyr D) He was entirely apolitical and reclusive
A) The duty of property ownership B) The concept of divine grace C) The importance of social equality D) The sex drive
A) Utopian anarchism B) Totalitarianism C) Liberal democracy D) Pacifism
A) La Mettrie and Holbach B) Plato and Aristotle C) Saint Augustine and Aquinas D) Marx and Engels
A) They are acting on behalf of the state B) Their behavior is determined by the materialist laws of nature C) They are divinely protected from judgment D) They have already repented for their actions
A) A complete system of nihilism B) A standard liberal humanism C) A rigid religious dogma D) A refined version of feudal ethics
A) Ambition, drive, and industry B) Strength, courage, and athletic prowess C) Intelligence, wit, and logic D) Charity, pity, and respect for parents
A) The peaceful negotiation of treaties B) The pursuit of philosophical debate C) The donation of property to the poor D) The torture and murder of children
A) Freud B) Marx C) Camus D) Hume
A) Entirely logical and consistent B) A perfect reflection of traditional religious morality C) Confused, because it rails against nature while advocating following its destructive impulses D) A mathematical proof of natural law
A) They are purely biological reflexes B) They are only human conventions C) They are scientifically proven facts D) They are divinely ordained and immutable
A) Jeanne Testard B) Anne-Prospère C) Mademoiselle Beauvoison D) Rose Keller
A) Château de Saumur B) Pierre-Encize prison C) La Coste D) Vincennes prison
A) The request was ignored B) Sade was banished from France C) Sade was sentenced to death D) The king ordered Sade's release
A) Burgundy B) La Coste, Provence C) Montreuil estate at Échauffour D) Paris
A) Anne-Prospère B) Rose Keller C) Renée-Pélagie D) Mademoiselle Beauvoison
A) Madame de Montreuil B) Mademoiselle Beauvoison C) Rose Keller D) Jeanne Testard
A) Stabbing her in the leg B) Cutting her C) Removing her clothes D) Brandishing it at her neck
A) She kicked down the door B) Sade accidentally left the door unlocked C) She escaped out a window D) She convinced a guard to let her go
A) Mademoiselle Beauvoison B) Anne-Prospère C) Madame de Montreuil D) Rose Keller
A) 1760 B) 1730 C) 1750 D) 1740
A) Avignon B) Hôtel de Condé, Paris C) Château de Saumane D) Château de Longeville
A) Seven Years' War B) French Revolution C) Thirty Years' War D) Napoleonic Wars
A) Libertinism B) Narcissism C) Masochism D) Sadism
A) Charenton insane asylum B) Bastille C) Hôtel de Montreuil D) A monastery
A) Louis Joseph B) Abbé de Sade C) Abbé d'Amblet D) Comte de Sade
A) Madame de Saint-Germain B) Renée-Pélagie C) Laure de Lauris D) Madame de Raimond
A) Louis-le-Grand B) Collège de France C) Sorbonne D) École Militaire
A) Justine B) Candide C) Les Misérables D) Madame Bovary
A) Simone de Beauvoir B) Angela Carter C) Roland Barthes D) Andrea Dworkin
A) Cornet B) Captain C) Colonel D) Sub-lieutenant
A) January 1775 B) June 1772 C) April 1773 D) September 1774
A) Nanon B) Latour C) Louis XVI D) Louis XV
A) Spanish fly B) Arsenic C) Belladonna D) Laudanum
A) 12 September B) 11 September C) 2 September D) 30 April
A) 12 September 1772 B) 30 April 1773 C) 2 September 1772 D) 11 September 1772
A) Around 18 years old B) Around 20 years old C) Around 12 years old D) Around 15 years old
A) La Coste B) Arles C) Lyon D) Miolans
A) The Governor of Provence B) Louis XVI C) The Pope D) Louis XIV
A) Voyage d'Italie B) Aline and Valcour C) The Misfortunes of Virtue D) The 120 Days of Sodom
A) 22 B) 20 C) 18 D) 25
A) La Coste B) Charenton C) The Bastille D) Marseilles
A) A noblewoman from Paris B) A 33-year-old actress C) A revolutionary political activist D) The daughter of a writer
A) Lack of funding B) Arrest of the lead actor C) Audience uproar D) Government censorship
A) Absolute monarchy B) Constitutional monarchy C) The Directory regime D) Radical Jacobinism
A) Oxtiern B) Philosophy in the Bedroom C) Le Suborneur D) Justine
A) The Parisian Commune B) Committee of Public Safety C) The National Convention D) Section des Piques
A) September 1792 B) 27 July 1794 C) October 1796 D) December 1793
A) The Théâtre Molière B) Marat C) Robespierre D) Paul Barras
A) October 1800 B) September 1790 C) December 1799 D) July 1794
A) Hostile reviews B) Award nomination C) Complete indifference D) Critical acclaim
A) 1801 B) 1810 C) 1805 D) 1814
A) Joseph Fouché B) Napoleon Bonaparte C) Claude-Armand D) Abbé de Coulmier
A) 200 B) 500 C) 50 D) 100
A) Madeleine Leclerc B) Marie-Constance C) Sade's daughter D) Quesnet
A) Heart failure B) Prostrating gangrenous fever C) Old age D) Execution
A) Abbé de Coulmier B) Madeleine Leclerc C) Marie-Constance D) Claude-Armand
A) Sainte-Pélagie B) Malmaison C) Bicêtre D) Charenton
A) a revolting atrocity B) an inspiring hero C) a masterpiece of literature D) a boring character
A) Stendhal B) Swinburne C) Flaubert D) Baudelaire
A) André Breton B) Simone de Beauvoir C) Guillaume Apollinaire D) Raymond Queneau
A) The French Revolution B) Nazism C) Existentialism D) Communism
A) the study of his sexual life B) textual analysis C) the study of his language D) biographical interpretations
A) Annie Le Brun B) Simone de Beauvoir C) Camille Paglia D) Andrea Dworkin
A) Roger Shattuck B) Michel Onfray C) Pierre Guyotat D) Roland Barthes
A) a hero B) a literary icon C) a political activist D) a philosopher
A) The 19th century B) The 18th century C) The 20th century D) The 21st century
A) Hugo B) Voltaire C) Stendhal D) Rousseau
A) 100,000 B) 250,000 C) 350,000 D) 500,000
A) Romanticists B) Impressionists C) Realists D) Surrealists
A) Philip Kaufman B) Peter Weiss C) Yukio Mishima D) Pier Paolo Pasolini
A) The Bedroom B) Quills C) Nihilism D) Salò
A) Stendhal B) Michel Foucault C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) Baudelaire
A) Travelogues B) Journals C) Biographies D) Political tracts
A) 1899 B) 1812 C) 1785 D) 1791
A) Juliette B) Justine C) Philosophy in the Bedroom D) Aline and Valcour
A) Eleven B) Twenty C) Fifty D) Five
A) Science fiction B) Mystery C) Gothic fiction D) Western
A) Autobiographical journals B) Libertine satires C) Conventional historical novels D) Pornographic fantasies
A) Over fifty B) Exactly ten C) About twenty D) Less than five
A) Eulogy for the revolutionaries B) Idea on the method for the sanctioning of laws C) Address to the King D) Reflections on the Novel
A) 1983 B) 1966 C) 1952 D) 1990
A) Comte Xavier de Sade B) Donatien-Claude-Armand C) Marquis Thibault de Sade D) Pierre Cardin
A) Gilbert Lely B) Jean-Jacques Pauvert C) Ian Brady D) Ted Bundy
A) Gilbert Lely B) Comte Xavier de Sade C) Jean-Jacques Pauvert D) Pierre Cardin
A) 1990 B) 1949 C) 1966 D) 1983
A) A royal decree of exoneration B) A copyright on all future plays C) A trademark D) A public apology from the government |
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