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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 Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Hope.
(b) Societal aversions.
(c) Sin.
(d) Knowledge.

2. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?
(a) Nyx.
(b) Hera.
(c) Minerva.
(d) Aphrodite.

3. Where does Courval spend most of his time?
(a) Near Caaux.
(b) Near Nemours.
(c) Near Laiz.
(d) Near Saulcet.

4. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?
(a) Spaniards.
(b) Moors.
(c) Romans.
(d) English.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

2. How much did Florville receive from her adoptive mother upon her death?

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

4. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

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

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