The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) An original and eternal Nature.
(b) Man.
(c) God.
(d) Sin.

2. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Lerince.
(b) Senneval.
(c) Courval.
(d) Verquin.

3. How old was Florville when she had a child that died?
(a) 16.
(b) 11.
(c) 13.
(d) 19.

4. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Humility.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Shame.
(d) Prayer.

5. At the opening of "Florville and Courval," how old is Courval?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 55.
(d) 45.

6. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Duc.
(b) Saint-Ford.
(c) Sade.
(d) Almani.

7. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Novel.
(b) History.
(c) Myth.
(d) Lie.

8. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Flogging.
(b) Eroticism.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Adultery.

9. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?
(a) Nyx.
(b) Minerva.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Hera.

10. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Hebe.
(b) Duc.
(c) Blangis.
(d) Curval.

11. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Palestinians.
(c) The Egyptions.
(d) The Moors.

12. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

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

14. Villeterque accused Sade of portraying villains who were _________.
(a) Guilty.
(b) Repentant.
(c) Happy.
(d) Pathetic.

15. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) Nine.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

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

3. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

4. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

5. What "matter" does Courval state "concerns me not the least"?

(see the answer keys)

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