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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. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against Nature.
(b) When he sins against mankind.
(c) When he sins against God.
(d) When he multiplies.

2. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) All Hallow's Eve.
(b) Easter.
(c) New Year's.
(d) Christmas.

3. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Humility.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Shame.

4. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Laclos.
(c) Wilde.
(d) Thackeray .

5. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a destroyer.
(b) Being an accuser.
(c) Being a forgiver.
(d) Being a creative evolutionist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

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

4. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

5. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

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