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

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

3. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?
(a) An inspector.
(b) Sade's mother-in-law.
(c) Sade's wife.
(d) Sade's mother.

4. 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) Materialistic atheism.
(c) Sadism.
(d) Contempt.

5. 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 reality of sin.
(b) The right to do as one wished.
(c) The acceptance of the refusal to change.
(d) The beginning of tragedy.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Nature find man "wrong"?

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

3. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?

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

5. In March of 1793, how old was Sade?

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