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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour and Sade's Reply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Nature find man "wrong"?
(a) When he sins against mankind.
(b) When he sins against Nature.
(c) When he multiplies.
(d) When he sins against God.

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

3. What kind of feeling did Villeterque state that he had while reading Sade's work?
(a) Feeling of indignation.
(b) Feeling of synthesis.
(c) Feeling of calmness.
(d) Feeling of pride.

4. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Id.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Logic.
(d) Eros.

5. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."
(a) Indirect.
(b) Unbalanced.
(c) Misleading.
(d) Proportionate.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 ____________________.

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

3. How many questions did Villeterque say that Sade had raised in "Reflections on the Novel"?

4. What writer loathed Sade and referred to him as "monster author"?

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

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