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

2. In Tale 11, "he" needs to be provided with __________.
(a) Two brothers.
(b) Twins.
(c) Two sisters.
(d) A brother and sister.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cut off in Tale 46 in Part Three?

2. What item is a girl thrown into in Tale 49 of Part Three?

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

4. Whom is "given" to the company on the 6th night of Part Three?

5. In Part Two, on what evening is Duc flogged while copulating with Zelmire's maid?

(see the answer key)

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