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

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and violence.
(b) Foulness and violence.
(c) Hatred and sadism.
(d) Resentment and violence.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

2. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

3. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

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

5. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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