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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Villeterque's Review of Les Crimes de l'Amour and Sade's Reply.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freud, what is "the life instinct"?
(a) Logic.
(b) Pathos.
(c) Eros.
(d) Id.

2. What character did Beauvoir claim had been created as a projection of Sade himself?
(a) Duc.
(b) Blangis.
(c) Curval.
(d) Hebe.

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

4. What name is given to "any work of imagination fashioned from the most uncommon adventures which men experience in the course of their lives"?
(a) Myth.
(b) Lie.
(c) History.
(d) Novel.

5. Whom did Klossowski quote about "original sin"?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Hobes.
(c) Joseph de Maistre.
(d) Locke.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sade, man is prey to what two weaknesses?

2. According to Klossowski, "what we call crime must contain the key" to ___________.

3. Who wrote "Journees amusantes"?

4. According to Beauvoir, what did Sade long for?

5. What did Sade state that "I have never written"?

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