The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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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. Which of Sade's plays was a great success?
(a) "Les Antiquaires."
(b) "Oxtiern."
(c) "Les Fetes de l'amitie."
(d) "Le Prevaricateur ou le Magistrat du temps passe."

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

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

4. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Woman.
(d) Sade.

5. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Flogging.
(d) Eroticism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?

3. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

4. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?

5. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

(see the answer key)

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