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

2. How many questions did Villeterque state he would "bother with"?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) One.

3. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) Morality.
(b) God.
(c) Espionage.
(d) Libertinage.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

2. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?

3. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

4. What book did Sade say that Villeterque had not read, based upon his "stupid account"?

5. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

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