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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. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against Nature.
(b) When he multiplies.
(c) When he sins against God.
(d) When he sins against mankind.

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

3. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.
(a) Sin.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Societal aversions.
(d) Hope.

4. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?
(a) Crebillon.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Momus.
(d) Chaucer.

5. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?
(a) Desire and need.
(b) Lust and love.
(c) Prayer and love.
(d) Prayer and desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Sade, passed novels on to "our courtly storytellers"?

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

3. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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

5. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

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