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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The 120 Days of Sodom: Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 86.
(b) 200.
(c) 600.
(d) 780.

3. How old was Duclos when she found Geoffrey, a monk, in a cell with Louis?
(a) Nine.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

4. At what time do the "Statutes" declare that the men should rise in the morning?
(a) 8:00 am.
(b) 6:00 am.
(c) 10:00 am.
(d) 12:00 pm.

5. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Balance.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

2. How much per year does the "society" collect?

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

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

5. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

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