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

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

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

4. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Humility.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Shame.
(d) Prayer.

5. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Balance.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what people did the novel originate?

2. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

3. In what month was Sade married?

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

5. According to Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.

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