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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. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Interpretation
(c) Duplication.
(d) Imitation.

2. Where did Bataille work until 1942?
(a) Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
(b) The National Gallery in London.
(c) Ecole des Beaux Artes.
(d) El Prado in Spain.

3. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the father was imprisoned.
(b) When the father went insane.
(c) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(d) When the mother took a job in Paris.

4. When did George Bataille die?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1939.

5. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Reasoning.
(b) Descriptive accuracy.
(c) Diagnostic accuracy.
(d) Aesthetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?

2. What did professor Hartmann dispute about the treatment of the Marx/Hegel dialectic?

3. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?

4. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

5. What is the first stage of revolution, in "The Use Value of D. A. F. de Sade"?

(see the answer key)

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