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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. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?
(a) His home.
(b) In prison.
(c) His bed.
(d) A brothel.

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

3. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Blangis.
(b) Hebe.
(c) Curval.
(d) Duc.

4. What was the first thing that Sade did when society "quickly seized upon Sade's secret and classified it as a crime"?
(a) Humility.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Shame.

5. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?
(a) God.
(b) Woman.
(c) Man.
(d) Sade.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klossowski, what philosopher opposed the sufferings of the innocent?

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

3. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?

4. Who did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?

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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