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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 was Bataille afraid of as a child?
(a) Spiders.
(b) The Rain.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Rats.

2. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?
(a) Public Assistance.
(b) Welfare.
(c) Government subsidies.
(d) Potlatch.

3. What principles does Bataille say men associate with height in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Power and danger.
(b) Strength and authority.
(c) Trustworthiness and leadership.
(d) Good and light.

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

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(b) For megalomania and failure of ideas.
(c) For admiring Emerson.
(d) For going insane.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form does Bataille take after being a boy in "[Dream]"?

2. Where was Bataille born?

3. What were Bataille's feelings for Breton?

4. Who introduced Bataille to surrealism?

5. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

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