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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nature as Destructive Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His own mother.
(b) His son.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother-in-law.

5. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?
(a) 42.
(b) 65.
(c) 53.
(d) 47.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the first slave to Nature's laws?

3. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

4. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?

5. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

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