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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 does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?
(a) Oedipal terror.
(b) Homoerotic terror.
(c) Obsession with priests.
(d) Obsession with excrement.

2. What was Nietzsche's life dominated by, in Bataille's account?
(a) Puzzles in which he could see the nature of society.
(b) Obsession with a lost world.
(c) Stifled affection for a woman.
(d) Aggression toward the social world.

3. When did George Bataille die?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1962.

4. What did Engels work for eight years to develop, but ultimately disavow?
(a) A dialectics of mathematics.
(b) A dialectics of religion.
(c) A dialectics of manufacturing.
(d) A dialectics of nature.

5. How does Bataille describe his work?
(a) Hydrocephalic.
(b) Bicephalic.
(c) Monocephalic.
(d) Acephalic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bataille feel about the rats in "[Dream]"?

3. What did Bataille and Andre Masson dream about as Bataille was writing "The Labyrinth"?

4. What does Bataille say his father looked like in "[Dream]"?

5. What does Bataille say is the contradiction in Christians worshiping God?

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