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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 author did Sade supposedly ignore because of his jealousy regarding the individual's success as a writer?
(a) Turgenev.
(b) Laclos.
(c) Thackeray .
(d) Wilde.

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

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1771.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1784.
(d) 1769.

4. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Sade.
(c) Sin.
(d) Adam.

5. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were banned.
(b) They were lost.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

2. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?

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

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

5. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?

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