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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 "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh", how long does Bataille say it took Van Gogh to paint suns after his self-mutilation?
(a) Fifteen months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Six months.
(d) Nine months.

2. What principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Labor and evil.
(b) Powerlessness and subservience.
(c) Subversion and power.
(d) Evil and dark.

3. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(b) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.
(c) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.
(d) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.

4. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?
(a) He was fired.
(b) He died.
(c) He was ill.
(d) He fled the Germans.

5. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?
(a) Production.
(b) Workers.
(c) Capital.
(d) Unions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?

2. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?

3. What does homogeneity depend on?

4. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?

5. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?

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