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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. Where does fascism originate?
(a) Among the workers who seize control of the means of production.
(b) Among the middle classes who want to control the proletariat.
(c) Among the poor who have nothing to establish power.
(d) Among the rich who are threatened by an outside group.

2. What movement does Bataille say in "The Sacred" was heir to Vincent Van Gogh and Rimbaud?
(a) Surrealism.
(b) Cubism.
(c) Dadaism.
(d) Transcendentalism.

3. When did Bataille and his mother abandon his father?
(a) When the father was imprisoned.
(b) When the Germans arrived in 1915.
(c) When the father went insane.
(d) When the mother took a job in Paris.

4. What strategy does Surrealism use for presenting images?
(a) Opposite images are contrasted.
(b) Images are piled on, one after another.
(c) Layers of each image are stripped away until the essential truth is apparent.
(d) The images are distorted beyond recognition.

5. What are the two forms of heterogeneity Bataille introduces in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?
(a) The sovereign and the worker.
(b) The policeman and the drunkard.
(c) The bourgeois merchant and the Jewish banker.
(d) The Marxist revolution and the capitalist marketplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Elisabeth Judas-Forster?

2. How did Leiris portray Bataille to Breton?

3. What does the cross demand, at the end of "Sacrifices"?

4. What does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?

5. How did fascists see Nietzsche?

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