1. He is known as the Marquis de Sade, but what is his full name?

   1. Jean Baptiste François Joseph de Sade

   2. Donatien Claude Armand de Sade

   3. Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

   4. Donatien Aldonse Louis de Sade

2. In Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, a fictional landscaping company's name alludes to De Sade. What is it called

   1. The Marquis de Sod

   2. 120 Clays of Sodom

   3. The Misfortunes of Verdure

   4. The Marquis de Sward

3. 

   Which celebrated public intellectual wrote Sade/Fourier/Loyola?

   1. Michel Foucault

   2. Roland Barthes

   3. Paul de Man

   4. Stephen Fry

4. Who wrote an essay entitled Must We Burn Sade?, first published in 1951?

   1. Simone de Beauvoir

   2. Jean-Paul Sartre

   3. Albert Camus

   4. René Maheu

5. The Misfortunes of Virtue, Sade's first novel, is perceived by some critics as a satire of which 18th-century English novel?

   1. Fanny Hill

   2. Gulliver's Travels

   3. The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

   4. Pamela

6. 'The philosopher must teach these pupils [French students] that it is far less essential to understand nature than to enjoy and respect its laws.' Which of De Sade's novels is this quote from?

   1. Philosophy in the Bedroom

   2. Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man

   3. The Crimes of Love

   4. Aline and Valcour

7. 

   Geoffrey Rush and Kate Winslet starred in a film about Sade's last years. What was the title?

   1. De Sade

   2. Dark Prince

   3. Quills

   4. Lunacy

8. Who ordered De Sade's imprisonment for immoral writing in 1801?

   1. Maximilien Robespierre

   2. Jean-Paul Marat

   3. Louis XVII

   4. Napoleon Bonaparte

9. What was the sequel to The Misfortunes of Virtue?

   1. L'Aigle, Mademoiselle

   2. Juliette

   3. Philosophy in the Bedroom

   4. The 120 Days of Sodom

10. Which author, according to his biographer, turned down a request to translate De Sade's work into English, while acceding that his "visions of love and physical ecstasy were as extraordinary as anything written by Dante"

    1. Samuel Beckett

    2. Graham Greene

    3. Evelyn Waugh

    4. TS Eliot

Solutions

1:C, 2:A, 3:B, 4:A, 5:D, 6:A, 7:C, 8:D, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   Shocking. You deserve a thorough whipping for such a performance

2. 4 and above.

   Not quite wicked enough. Try another variation

3. 7 and above.

   Well done! You obviously know lots about the Marquis - which is a little worrying