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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) Prayer.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Shame.
(d) Humility.

2. In what month was Sade married?
(a) July.
(b) October.
(c) May.
(d) June.

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

4. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He was bound for greatness.
(b) He would be burned for his sins.
(c) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(d) He was a coward.

5. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Almani.
(b) Duc.
(c) Sade.
(d) Saint-Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.

2. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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

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

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

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