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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The 120 Days of Sodom: Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Hope.
(b) Sin.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Societal aversions.

2. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a destroyer.
(b) Being a forgiver.
(c) Being a creative evolutionist.
(d) Being an accuser.

3. What kind of opinions does an author hold when they contradict their own views?
(a) Flawless.
(b) Accurate.
(c) Erroneous.
(d) Veracious.

4. What kind of life did Florville live, according to a former colleague of Courval's?
(a) A secluded life.
(b) A libertine life.
(c) An charmed life.
(d) A sad life.

5. What do the "young lads," who are 12-14 years of age, wear to the first dinner parties of the "society"?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Feminine attire.
(c) Bondage attire.
(d) Chains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Duc's daughter whom he gives to Curval to marry?

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

4. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

5. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

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