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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. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) Man.
(b) Sade.
(c) Woman.
(d) God.

2. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?
(a) Nine.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

3. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Oxtiern."
(b) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(c) "Les Antiquaires."
(d) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."

4. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Sin.
(c) Societal aversions.
(d) Hope.

5. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Joseph de Maistre.
(b) Locke.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hobes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

2. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

3. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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