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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 Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?
(a) A strong soul.
(b) The ability to do what he wished without punishment.
(c) The ability to be regarded as a famous writer.
(d) A real life.

2. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade was bipolar.
(b) Sade was a criminal.
(c) Sade was maladjusted.
(d) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.

3. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Locke.
(c) Joseph de Maistre.
(d) Hobes.

4. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) His bed.
(b) A brothel.
(c) In prison.
(d) His home.

5. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His mother-in-law.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son.
(d) His own mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?

2. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."

3. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

4. With what people did the novel originate?

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

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