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

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 ____________________.
(a) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(b) The beginning of tragedy.
(c) The reality of sin.
(d) The right to do as one wished.

3. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He was a coward.
(b) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(c) He would be burned for his sins.
(d) He was bound for greatness.

4. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) God.
(b) Woman.
(c) Sade.
(d) Man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

3. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?

4. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

5. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

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