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

2. Where does fascism originate?
(a) Among the poor who have nothing to establish power.
(b) Among the workers who seize control of the means of production.
(c) Among the middle classes who want to control the proletariat.
(d) Among the rich who are threatened by an outside group.

3. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?
(a) Disillusionment.
(b) Distrust.
(c) Faith.
(d) Messianism.

4. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were implicit in them.
(b) They were logical extensions.
(c) They were unrelated.
(d) They were unprecedented.

5. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?
(a) Freedom from struggle.
(b) Struggle with the lower self.
(c) Struggle with insurmountable obstacles.
(d) Embrace in struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?

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

3. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

4. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?

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

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