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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 democracy is based on?
(a) Free elections.
(b) Free speech.
(c) Open debate.
(d) A weak opposition.

2. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?
(a) By excluding all idealism.
(b) By replacing idealism with matter.
(c) By superseding idealism with dialogue.
(d) By including all idealism.

3. Who is the audience for "The Practice of Joy before Death"?
(a) Those who believe in man's innate divinity.
(b) The Catholic Church.
(c) Those who are ill.
(d) Those who believe in no beyond.

4. What does Bataille say about the knife whose handle and blade are changed indefinitely?
(a) It partakes of the eternal form of knife-ness.
(b) It is a capitalist knife, with its value in its use alone.
(c) It is no longer the same knife.
(d) It is a modern knife, with replaceable parts.

5. Where did Bataille go to school?
(a) Lycée Henry IV.
(b) Ecole des Chartres.
(c) Lycée International.
(d) Ecole des Beaux Artes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose hands does Bataille describe conspicuous consumption as a tool?

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

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

4. What characterizes man in "The Eye"?

5. What was Nietzsche's relationship with fascism, in Bataille's account?

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