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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II (1932-1935).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?
(a) The intelligentsia.
(b) The rich.
(c) The middle class.
(d) The poor.

2. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?
(a) It is a law made by interested people trying to hide their interests.
(b) It cannot explain the growth from child to adult.
(c) It underestimates the value of aesthetics.
(d) It does not account for avarice in the proletariat.

3. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Parody.
(b) Farce.
(c) Tragedy.
(d) Comedy.

4. What characterizes man in "The Eye"?
(a) Longing for sacrilege.
(b) Horror of eyes and insects.
(c) Desire for violence and violation.
(d) Longing for purity.

5. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) When homogeneity can be broken up peacefully.
(b) When heterogeneity happens spontaneously.
(c) When homogeneity happens spontaneously.
(d) When heterogeneity can be controlled with force.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

2. What is the benefit Bataille sees to having more than one meaning in his work?

3. When was George Bataille born?

4. What does Bataille compare roots to, in "The Language of Flowers"?

5. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

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