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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 did Beauvoir state embodied Sade's failure?
(a) His mother-in-law.
(b) His wife.
(c) His son.
(d) His own mother.

2. The purpose of Nature is ___________.
(a) Being a forgiver.
(b) Being an accuser.
(c) Being a destroyer.
(d) Being a creative evolutionist.

3. According to "Must We Burn Sade?" what happened to Sade's manuscripts?
(a) They were lost.
(b) They were burned.
(c) They were banned.
(d) They were stolen.

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

5. What do biographers fail to present in regard to Sade?
(a) An objective view on his work.
(b) A history of his life in Bastille.
(c) An authentic portrait of him.
(d) A record of his crimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Beauvoir state that Sade "mistrusted everything and everybody"?

2. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?

3. Who engineered Sade's escape form Miolans?

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

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

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