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