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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 ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's wife.
(b) Sade's mother-in-law.
(c) Sade's mother.
(d) An inspector.

2. Which person is interrupted during their narration and told by the President not to omit any details?
(a) Hercule.
(b) Hebe.
(c) Zelamir.
(d) Duclos.

3. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 600.
(b) 200.
(c) 780.
(d) 86.

4. 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.

5. According to Duc during the first day, ______________ are "they who absolutely cannot bear the instant when the illusion is shattered."
(a) Unnumbered.
(b) Few.
(c) Countless.
(d) Many.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

3. Where does Courval spend most of his time?

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

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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