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

2. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

3. 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) Novel.
(b) Lie.
(c) Myth.
(d) History.

4. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Crime and ounishment.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Materialistic atheism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what "level" did Freud look at life?

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

3. 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 ____________________.

4. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?

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

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