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

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

3. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By insuring that her works become immortal.
(b) By forgetting who she is completely.
(c) By destroying her own works.
(d) By forging forward at all costs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. At what "level" did Freud look at life?

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

5. What did Sade "push to a point" where "it will be invested with the form of a truly transcendental fatalism"?

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