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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. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) A history of his life in Bastille.
(b) A record of his crimes.
(c) An authentic portrait of him.
(d) An objective view on his work.

2. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Almani.
(d) Farady.

3. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?
(a) The troubadours.
(b) The satirists.
(c) The prose writers.
(d) The miracle pageant writers.

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

5. At what "level" did Freud look at life?
(a) Mineral.
(b) Inorganic.
(c) Organic.
(d) Animal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

3. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

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

5. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

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