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1. This woman got into a lot of trouble with an outdoor male servant long before Eva Longoria was born.
2. This Frenchwoman was married to a country doctor. She exhausted her pocketbook having affairs with a lawyer and a wealthy landowner, then died by her own hand.
3. After the success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe penned this tale of a woman who has numerous ruinous affairs and ends up married, unwittingly, to her own brother.
4. This x-rated text, with lavish illustrations, asserts that: "An ingenious person should multiply the kinds of congress after the fashion of the different kinds of beasts and of birds."
5. This Book of the Bible, voiced in part by an unnamed woman awaiting her marriage, contains some beautiful and rather racy love poetry.
6. This Roman poet was exiled by the Emperor Augustus to a bleak village on the Black Sea, possibly because of his authorship of the erotic "Ars Amatoria" ("The Art of Love").
7. Which of the following women died with her head intact upon her shoulders?
8. This famous sadomasochistic fairytale was penned by "Anon.", who turned out to be a highly educated French woman (Pauline Reage). She wrote it in her spare time to entertain her husband.
9. What famous French author wrote a hilariously bawdy novel involving the seduction of the bailiff's wife, an aunt, a younger sister, an older sister, Kate the maid, an older sister and Kate the maid at the same time, and one of the cows in the barn, among others?
10. This Scottish writer, known best for his biography of a famous lexicographer, also wrote a series of sketches entitled "London Journal" in which he acquaints himself with a number of women in the city's streets, loses many a guinea, and gains an infectious disease.
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