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

2. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 42.
(b) 53.
(c) 47.
(d) 65.

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

4. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1771.
(d) 1780.

5. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Machiavelli.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

5. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

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