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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. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1792.
(b) 1796.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1789.

2. How much per year does the "society" collect?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 2 million.
(d) 1 million.

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

4. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?
(a) Erroneous.
(b) Veracious.
(c) Flawless.
(d) Accurate.

5. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.

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

3. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?

4. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.

5. At the end of his review, what did Villeterque say would happen to Rousseau, Voltaire, Marmontel, Fielding, and Richardson?

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