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

2. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(b) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(c) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.
(d) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.

3. What does Bataille say money measures, in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) Work.
(b) Power.
(c) Status.
(d) Money.

4. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Obsession with priests.
(b) Homoerotic terror.
(c) Oedipal terror.
(d) Obsession with excrement.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is classical utility theory inadequate to define, in Bataille's opinion?

2. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?

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

4. What does homogeneity depend on?

5. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

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