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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. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Lust and love.
(b) Desire and need.
(c) Prayer and love.
(d) Prayer and desire.

2. With what people did the novel originate?
(a) The Greeks.
(b) The Moors.
(c) The Palestinians.
(d) The Egyptions.

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

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

5. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's mother-in-law.
(b) Sade's wife.
(c) An inspector.
(d) Sade's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

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

3. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

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

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

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