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

2. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Egyptions.
(c) The Moors.
(d) The Palestinians.

3. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Proportionate.
(b) Misleading.
(c) Unbalanced.
(d) Indirect.

4. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Easter.
(c) All Hallow's Eve.
(d) New Year's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

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

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

4. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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