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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. Where did Engels look for examples to test the dialectic method of Marx and Hegel?
(a) Nature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Lived experience.
(d) Politics.

2. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?
(a) War.
(b) Public gardens.
(c) Luxuries.
(d) Art.

3. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) Utility theory disregards values like honor and virtue.
(b) Utility theory is not compatible with the Marxist imperative of class revolution.
(c) Utility theory relies on principles like honor and duty.
(d) Utility theory mystifies economics with talk of revolution.

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

5. What value does money articulate for workers?
(a) The value of their personal worth.
(b) The value of their ideas.
(c) The value of their status.
(d) The value of what they produce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?

2. When was George Bataille born?

3. What does homogeneity depend on?

4. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?

5. What did Bataille intend to define "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

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