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

2. 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 satisfied living a mundane life.
(b) He was bound for greatness.
(c) He was a coward.
(d) He would be burned for his sins.

3. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade come to know at an early age?
(a) Resentment and violence.
(b) Hatred and sadism.
(c) Foulness and violence.
(d) Hatred and violence.

4. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Balance.

5. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) All Hallow's Eve.
(b) Easter.
(c) Christmas.
(d) New Year's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The purpose of Nature is ___________.

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