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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. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?
(a) Restif.
(b) Cleland.
(c) Milton.
(d) Spenser.

2. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?
(a) The Gauls.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Romans.
(d) The Greeks.

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

4. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The satirists.
(b) The miracle pageant writers.
(c) The troubadours.
(d) The prose writers.

5. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Hobes.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Locke.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years longer does Sade say that Courval will live?

2. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

3. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

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

5. Who is present at the first dinner party of the "society"?

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