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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 is present at the first dinner party of the "society"?
(a) Men only.
(b) Both women and men.
(c) Women only.
(d) Only the members of the "society."

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

3. What is the age range of the young men who were gathered to be at the "society's" first dinner party"?
(a) 20-30.
(b) 18-28.
(c) 25-35.
(d) 15-25.

4. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Pathos.
(b) Eros.
(c) Id.
(d) Logic.

5. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Crime and ounishment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

2. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

3. According to the Introduction to "120 Days of Sodom," whose war has drained the state treasury?

4. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

5. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

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