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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What writer coined the term conspicuous consumption?
(a) Engels.
(b) Veblen.
(c) Marx.
(d) Hegel.

2. What happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?
(a) The government will dissolve.
(b) The people will revolt.
(c) New political parties will form.
(d) Enthusiasm meets a void.

3. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Raises his head to the heavens.
(b) Distorts his vision with unnatural ideas.
(c) Hides his anus.
(d) Lets him see things clearer.

4. With whose picture does Bataille say Nietzsche's picture was paired?
(a) Lou Andreas-Salomé's.
(b) Hegel's.
(c) Hitler's.
(d) Darwin's.

5. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Descriptive accuracy.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Aesthetics.
(d) Diagnostic accuracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?

2. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?

3. What does Bataille say is the only religion for fascists?

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

5. What was the subject of Bataille's first pamphlet?

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