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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 are the guests at the second dinner party?
(a) Homeless girls.
(b) Girls of "superior class."
(c) Homeless boys.
(d) Prostitutes.

2. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The troubadours.
(b) The miracle pageant writers.
(c) The prose writers.
(d) The satirists.

3. Villeterque wonders about the painting of scenes where crime reigns __________.
(a) Accepted.
(b) Successful.
(c) As Nature wanted.
(d) Triumphant.

4. According to Champville, on the 16th of December, with whom is Duc always pictured?
(a) One man and one woman.
(b) Three men and three women.
(c) All women.
(d) All men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The passions are referred to in Part Four as ___________.

2. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

3. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

4. To what Roman goddess does Courval compare Florville?

5. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?

(see the answer key)

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