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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. On what holiday did Sade terrorize Rose Keller?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas.
(c) All Hallow's Eve.
(d) New Year's.

2. What did Klossowski state was the only way Sadean conscience recovers her liberty?
(a) By insuring that her works become immortal.
(b) By forging forward at all costs.
(c) By destroying her own works.
(d) By forgetting who she is completely.

3. Given that Beauvoir stated that he found no "hint of ambition" in Sade, what did Beauvoir state that he believed about Sade?
(a) He would be burned for his sins.
(b) He was satisfied living a mundane life.
(c) He was a coward.
(d) He was bound for greatness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Sade believe existed outside of the three kingdoms of species and creatures?

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

5. In Klossowski's quoting of "120 Days of Sodom," what will never exist "wherever men are equal and when differences do not exist"?

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