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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 character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Duc.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Hebe.
(d) Curval.

2. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Animals.

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

4. What does Courval's wife devote herself to after leaving him?
(a) Libertinage.
(b) Morality.
(c) God.
(d) Espionage.

5. According to the Bishop, who needs to be punished severely on Saturday?
(a) Narcisse.
(b) Duclos.
(c) Zelamir.
(d) Hebe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

2. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

3. How old was Duclos when she found Geoffrey, a monk, in a cell with Louis?

4. According to Tale 19, what age must the virgins be with which "he" wishes to copulate?

5. What was the "unique pleasure" of Father Etienne?

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