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

2. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Les Antiquaires."
(b) "Oxtiern."
(c) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(d) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

2. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

3. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

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

5. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

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