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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 had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Crebillon.
(d) Momus.

2. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Unbalanced.
(b) Proportionate.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Indirect.

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1753.

4. 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) Prayer.
(c) Shame.
(d) All of the given answers.

5. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Crime and ounishment.
(b) Sadism.
(c) Materialistic atheism.
(d) Contempt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

2. In what month was Sade married?

3. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

4. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?

5. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?

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