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

2. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Eroticism.
(b) Flogging.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Drinking.

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

4. What year did both Maurice Heine and Gilbert Lely give as the birth year of Sade "the writer"?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1780.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

2. With what people did the novel originate?

3. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

5. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

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