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

2. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobes.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

3. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?
(a) Man.
(b) Animals.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

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

5. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) An objective view on his work.
(b) A history of his life in Bastille.
(c) A record of his crimes.
(d) An authentic portrait of him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What language was a mixture of Celtic and Latin?

3. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

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

5. In what year did Sade publish "Les Crimes de l'Amour"?

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