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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. What does Florville want to tell Courval before they marry?
(a) The story about her finding God.
(b) The adventures of her life.
(c) The story of her parents.
(d) The story behind her affair.

2. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?
(a) They would "be revered."
(b) They would "be exhaulted."
(c) They would be "read no more."
(d) They would "be found guilty of their crimes."

3. What did Sade accuse Villeterque of quoting?
(a) Out of context passages of lust.
(b) Out of context delusions.
(c) Out of context isolated phrases.
(d) Out of context passages of dialogue.

4. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?
(a) Villeterque-the-sinner.
(b) Villeterque-the-condemner.
(c) Villeterque-the-swine.
(d) Villeterque-the-plagiarist.

5. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1799.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1796.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

2. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

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

4. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

5. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

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