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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. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Sade.
(b) Almani.
(c) Duc.
(d) Saint-Ford.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Curval.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Duc.
(d) Hebe.

3. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Eroticism.
(d) Flogging.

4. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Eros.
(b) Id.
(c) Pathos.
(d) Logic.

5. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Germanic language.
(b) Romance language.
(c) Portuguese language.
(d) Gothic language.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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

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

5. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

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