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

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

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

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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