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

2. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?
(a) Poisson.
(b) Gomez.
(c) De Sevigne.
(d) Lenclos.

3. How old are the "young maids" that attend the fourth dinner party?
(a) 9-16.
(b) 7-15.
(c) 8-17.
(d) 12-18.

4. What does the "society" have to authenticate in regard to the "young maids" at the fourth dinner party?
(a) Their abandonment.
(b) Their bloodlines.
(c) Their virginity.
(d) Their reproductive ability.

5. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Animals.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much per year does the "society" collect?

2. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

3. What did Sade call Villeterque during his response to him?

4. What is the name of Duc's daughter whom he gives to Curval to marry?

5. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

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