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

2. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By destroying her own works.
(b) By forgetting who she is completely.
(c) By forging forward at all costs.
(d) By insuring that her works become immortal.

3. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Hobes.
(b) Locke.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

4. Madame de Verquin tries to set Florville up with __________.
(a) Courval.
(b) A slave boy.
(c) Senneval.
(d) An officer in the Navy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many things did Sade challenge Villeterque to do?

2. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?

3. On the evening of the 9th of December, what is Michette allowed to wear?

4. Who is present at the first dinner party of the "society"?

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

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