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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The 120 Days of Sodom: Parts Two, Three and Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Desire and need.
(b) Lust and love.
(c) Prayer and love.
(d) Prayer and desire.

3. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?
(a) 15,000 francs.
(b) 25,000 francs.
(c) 10,000 francs.
(d) 5,000 francs.

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

5. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 600.
(b) 86.
(c) 200.
(d) 780.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?

2. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

3. Courval is told that Florville is related to ______________.

4. Who is bled on the 20th night of Part Three?

5. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

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