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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 was the "Acephale" group's primary purpose?
(a) To annihilate the idea of God.
(b) To come into contact with God in men.
(c) To recreate the myth of God.
(d) To kill God.

2. Who contributed to "Documents"?
(a) Literary critics.
(b) Librarians.
(c) Biologists.
(d) Rebel surrealists.

3. What does Bataille say about a man who knows his neighbors?
(a) He replaces his life with the life of the community.
(b) He is a particle connected by instability to an entangled whole.
(c) He maintains his place in society by a network of lies and half-truths.
(d) He is larger than himself in his connection with an organic whole.

4. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(b) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.
(c) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(d) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.

5. What kind of eye does Victor Hugo describe in a poem Bataille cites?
(a) An eye of conscience.
(b) An eye of longing.
(c) An eye of judgment.
(d) An eye of surveillance.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?

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

3. What was the purpose of the Popular Front, in Bataille's account?

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

5. When did Bataille form the Popular Front?

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