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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 whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?
(a) The poor.
(b) The middle class.
(c) The rich.
(d) The intelligentsia.

2. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?
(a) Joan Miro.
(b) Michael Leiris.
(c) Marcel Duchamp.
(d) Andre Breton.

3. What does the title of "The Solar Anus" refer to?
(a) The regeneration of the universe in stars that eat planets.
(b) The passage out of purgatory.
(c) The source of all matter.
(d) The blinding effect of seeing a girl's anus.

4. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Communists and Socialists.
(b) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(c) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.
(d) Fascists and totalitarians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?

2. What interrupts the road in "[Dream]"?

3. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

4. How did Engels and Hartmann differ on the tenets of Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature"?

5. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?

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