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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. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Balance.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Democracy.

2. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) Sin.
(b) God.
(c) Man.
(d) An original and eternal Nature.

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

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

5. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were lost.
(b) They were banned.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were stolen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was the Bastille stormed?

3. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

4. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

5. According to Sade, who needed to be classified as poets and not novelists?

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