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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. 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) Contempt.
(c) Materialistic atheism.
(d) Sadism.

2. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1797.
(d) 1799.

3. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?
(a) Gothic language.
(b) Romance language.
(c) Germanic language.
(d) Portuguese language.

4. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were burned.
(b) They were lost.
(c) They were banned.
(d) They were stolen.

5. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.
(a) Hate and power.
(b) Lust and love.
(c) Spite and malice.
(d) Prayer and love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

2. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

3. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?

4. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

5. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

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