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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) 1775.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1771.

2. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1797.
(d) 1800.

3. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?
(a) The Gauls.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Romans.

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

5. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Animals.
(b) God.
(c) Nature.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?

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

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

4. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

5. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

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