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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. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a creative evolutionist.
(b) Being a destroyer.
(c) Being an accuser.
(d) Being a forgiver.

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Hatred and sadism.
(b) Foulness and violence.
(c) Resentment and violence.
(d) Hatred and violence.

3. 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) Prayer.
(c) Shame.
(d) All of the given answers.

4. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Farady.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Almani.

5. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His mistress.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

2. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

3. Who had written successful novels, although he "indulged vice and strayed from virtue"?

4. According to Sade, the Romans had the weaknesses of ________________.

5. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?

(see the answer key)

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