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

2. At what "level" did Freud look at life?
(a) Animal.
(b) Organic.
(c) Inorganic.
(d) Mineral.

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

4. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?
(a) Sade's bad relationship with his mother.
(b) Sade was bipolar.
(c) Sade was maladjusted.
(d) Sade was a criminal.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?

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

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

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