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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The 120 Days of Sodom: Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children does Courval have?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) One.
(d) Seven.

2. How many men are gathered to be "guests" at the first supper party of "the society"?
(a) 21.
(b) 16.
(c) 24.
(d) 12.

3. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Thackeray .
(b) Laclos.
(c) Turgenev.
(d) Wilde.

4. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?
(a) "L'Instituteur Philosophe."
(b) "Le Cocu de Lui-même."
(c) "Retaliation."
(d) "Les Crimes de L'Amour."

5. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?
(a) Sins against God.
(b) Sinful memories.
(c) Aberrations of Nature.
(d) Immoral books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

2. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

3. What is the age range of the young men who were gathered to be at the "society's" first dinner party"?

4. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

5. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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