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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 feeling does Bataille exaggerate in "The Lugubrious Game"?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Mournfulness.
(c) Respect.
(d) Irreverence.

2. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By taking lovers.
(b) By running away from home.
(c) By quitting school.
(d) By becoming a Protestant.

3. What does Bataille compare roots to, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) Visible leaves.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Human bodies.
(d) Death.

4. What are flowers not matched by, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The work of bees.
(b) The purity of the sunshine.
(c) A show of human love.
(d) The corrupt hands that pick them.

5. How do the rats appear in "[Dream]"?
(a) Scratching in the walls.
(b) Hanging by their tails.
(c) Crawling in ditches.
(d) Swimming in the bilge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say money measures, in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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

3. What does Bataille describe in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

4. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?

5. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?

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