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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. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?
(a) The ability to do what he wished without punishment.
(b) The ability to be regarded as a famous writer.
(c) A real life.
(d) A strong soul.

2. 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.

3. In what year was Sade imprisoned for debt?
(a) 1784.
(b) 1771.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1753.

4. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?
(a) Man.
(b) Sin.
(c) An original and eternal Nature.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?

2. What was the only thing that Sade believed would fulfill his existence?

3. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

4. What did Klossowski state was a "moral being and not a created being"?

5. "Punishments are always ___________________ to the crime."

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