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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. At what time do the "Statutes" declare that the men should rise in the morning?
(a) 6:00 am.
(b) 12:00 pm.
(c) 10:00 am.
(d) 8:00 am.

2. At what age did Duc carry out a plan to rob a public coach and rape all of the occupants?
(a) 17.
(b) 19.
(c) 21.
(d) 23.

3. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Oxtiern."
(b) "Les Antiquaires."
(c) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(d) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."

4. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1780.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1773.

5. According to Tale 19, what age must the virgins be with which "he" wishes to copulate?
(a) 30-40.
(b) 40-50.
(c) 50-60.
(d) 15-25.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

2. Who goes to visit Duc on the "First Day"?

3. In Tale 11, "he" needs to be provided with __________.

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

(see the answer key)

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