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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. According to the book's introduction, how many times has Duc de Blangis been married?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

2. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?
(a) Feeling of synthesis.
(b) Feeling of calmness.
(c) Feeling of indignation.
(d) Feeling of pride.

3. According to Sade, the truly honest man refuses to deal in ____________.
(a) Hearsay.
(b) Trust.
(c) Fact.
(d) Proof.

4. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 31.
(b) 34.
(c) 24.
(d) 27.

5. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By destroying her own works.
(b) By forgetting who she is completely.
(c) By forging forward at all costs.
(d) By insuring that her works become immortal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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

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

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

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

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