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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. Whom is "given" to the company on the 6th night of Part Three?
(a) Michette.
(b) Zelamir.
(c) Duclos.
(d) Heme.

2. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1775.

3. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Crebillon.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Momus.

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

5. 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) Lie.
(c) Novel.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Tale Three of Part Two, what does "he" hold to a girl's heart when he is raping her?

2. On the evening of the 9th of December, what is Michette allowed to wear?

3. In Tale 7, How old is the maid that lost her virginity to "his" valet?

4. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

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

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