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

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

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"?
(a) Novel.
(b) Myth.
(c) Lie.
(d) History.

4. 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 ____________________.
(a) The right to do as one wished.
(b) The reality of sin.
(c) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(d) The beginning of tragedy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?

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

4. During the storming of the Bastille, how many volumes of Sade's library were looted?

5. Who were the first novelists in Europe where "we dwell today"?

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