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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 was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Humility.
(c) Shame.
(d) All of the given answers.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Blangis.
(b) Hebe.
(c) Curval.
(d) Duc.

3. 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) Balance.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Democracy.

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

5. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Gothic language.
(b) Portuguese language.
(c) Romance language.
(d) Germanic language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?

2. According to the book's introduction, how many times has Duc de Blangis been married?

3. What did Geoffrey give to Duclos while in Louis' cell?

4. What did Sade call Villeterque at the opening of his reply to him?

5. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?

(see the answer key)

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