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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) Lust and love.
(b) Spite and malice.
(c) Prayer and love.
(d) Hate and power.

2. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Saint-Ford.
(b) Sade.
(c) Duc.
(d) Almani.

3. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?
(a) 600.
(b) 200.
(c) 780.
(d) 86.

4. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade was maladjusted.
(b) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(c) Sade was bipolar.
(d) Sade was a criminal.

5. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) His bed.
(b) His home.
(c) A brothel.
(d) In prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

2. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?

3. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

4. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?

5. In what cell was Sade kept while at Vincennes prison?

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