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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. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a destroyer.
(b) Being a forgiver.
(c) Being a creative evolutionist.
(d) Being an accuser.

2. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Lie.
(b) Myth.
(c) History.
(d) Novel.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?

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

4. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

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