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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 Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Plato.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Socrates.

2. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?
(a) Sadism.
(b) Crime and ounishment.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Materialistic atheism.

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

4. What was Voltaire's purpose in writing?
(a) To admonish culture.
(b) To create law.
(c) To insert philosophy in his novels.
(d) To put forth new knowledge.

5. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) An objective view on his work.
(b) A record of his crimes.
(c) A history of his life in Bastille.
(d) An authentic portrait of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?

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

3. In what month was Sade married?

4. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

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

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