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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 did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His wife.
(b) His own mother.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) His son.

2. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Materialistic atheism.

3. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Sin.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sade.
(d) Adam.

4. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Misleading.
(b) Indirect.
(c) Unbalanced.
(d) Proportionate.

5. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(b) Sade was maladjusted.
(c) Sade was a criminal.
(d) Sade was bipolar.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what people did the novel originate?

2. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

3. What is Courval's income, as noted by Sade?

4. Who are the guests at the third dinner party?

5. How many courses does the mid-day meal have?

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