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

2. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Logic.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Eros.
(d) Id.

3. Which author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Wilde.
(c) Thackeray .
(d) Laclos.

4. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By destroying her own works.
(b) By forgetting who she is completely.
(c) By forging forward at all costs.
(d) By insuring that her works become immortal.

5. In what year was the Bastille stormed?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1796.
(c) 1792.
(d) 1799.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."

2. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.

3. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

4. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?

5. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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