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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The 120 Days of Sodom: Parts Two, Three and Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Florville to live a virtuous life?
(a) Verquin.
(b) Lerince.
(c) Courval.
(d) Senneval.

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

3. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Hope.
(b) Societal aversions.
(c) Sin.
(d) Knowledge.

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

5. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To admonish culture.
(b) To create law.
(c) To put forth new knowledge.
(d) To insert philosophy in his novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the private party that is held every Friday, from where do the women come?

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

3. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

4. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

5. According to the Introduction to "120 Days of Sodom," whose war has drained the state treasury?

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