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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. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Momus.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Crebillon.

2. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1796.
(b) 1792.
(c) 1799.
(d) 1789.

3. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were lost.
(b) They were banned.
(c) They were stolen.
(d) They were burned.

4. How many men are gathered to be "guests" at the first supper party of "the society"?
(a) 24.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 21.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

2. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

3. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

4. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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