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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 ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) Sade's wife.
(b) Sade's mother.
(c) An inspector.
(d) Sade's mother-in-law.

2. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 65.
(b) 47.
(c) 42.
(d) 53.

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

4. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) All Hallow's Eve.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Year's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?

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

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"?

4. The purpose of Nature is ___________.

5. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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