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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 Klossowski, "the substitution of Nature in a state of perpetual motion for God signifies, not the arrival of a happier era for humanity," but ____________________.
(a) The beginning of tragedy.
(b) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(c) The reality of sin.
(d) The right to do as one wished.

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

3. What chemist did Klossowski quote regarding his fears about Nature?
(a) Almani.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Farady.
(d) Bernoulli.

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

5. 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 a criminal.
(d) Sade was maladjusted.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?

4. Whom did Klossowski name as the "original guilty party"?

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

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