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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 mistreated a poor family and then called for his own punishment by whipping?
(a) Duc.
(b) Sade.
(c) Almani.
(d) Saint-Ford.

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

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

4. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Balance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the only place that Sade believed he could assert himself?

2. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?

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

4. Who ordered a mistress of a brothel to stop giving women to Sade?

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

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