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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 does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?
(a) It underestimates the value of aesthetics.
(b) It cannot explain the growth from child to adult.
(c) It does not account for avarice in the proletariat.
(d) It is a law made by interested people trying to hide their interests.

2. What was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(b) He refuted Bataille's arguments.
(c) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.
(d) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.

3. Where was Bataille born?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Reims.
(c) Pau.
(d) Paris.

4. How did Engels and Hartmann differ on the tenets of Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature"?
(a) Engels believed them, but Hartmann was indifferent.
(b) Engels believed them, but Hartmann did not.
(c) Engels did not believe them, but Hartmann did.
(d) Engels was indifferent to them, but Hartmann did not believe them.

5. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Adler.
(b) Dr. Dausse.
(c) Dr. Rank.
(d) Dr. Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what conditions can a state be democratic, in Bataille's opinion?

2. When did George Bataille die?

3. How do philosophers use natural forms, in "The Language of Flowers"?

4. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

5. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?

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