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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Reflections on the Novel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.
(a) Lust and love.
(b) Spite and malice.
(c) Hate and power.
(d) Prayer and love.

2. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Prayer and love.
(b) Prayer and desire.
(c) Desire and need.
(d) Lust and love.

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

4. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) Man.
(b) Sin.
(c) An original and eternal Nature.
(d) God.

5. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Sade.
(b) Evil.
(c) Sin.
(d) Adam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

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

4. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

5. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

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