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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Oxtiern, or The Misfortunes of Libertinage.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Florville during the action of the story?
(a) 36.
(b) 26.
(c) 31.
(d) 28.

2. Who challenges Oxtiern to a duel?
(a) Derbac.
(b) Casmir.
(c) Ernestine's brother.
(d) Ernestine's father.

3. Who is present at the first dinner party of the "society"?
(a) Both women and men.
(b) Only the members of the "society."
(c) Women only.
(d) Men only.

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

5. How old was Florville when Saint-Agne proposed to her?
(a) 27.
(b) 24.
(c) 31.
(d) 34.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age is Champville "deflowered"?

2. According to Part Three of "The 120 Days of Sodom," what month is it?

3. What do the "young lads," who are 12-14 years of age, wear to the first dinner parties of the "society"?

4. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

5. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?

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