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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) 13.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 11.

2. 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) Myth.
(b) History.
(c) Novel.
(d) Lie.

3. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) God.
(b) Espionage.
(c) Libertinage.
(d) Morality.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

2. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?

3. How many children does Courval have?

4. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

5. At what age is Champville "deflowered"?

(see the answer key)

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