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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 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.

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

3. For what field did Bataille go to school?
(a) Writer.
(b) Renaissance art critic.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Medieval librarian.

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

5. How does Bataille describe the mandrake root?
(a) Noisy.
(b) Holy.
(c) Obscene.
(d) Human.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say is analogous to the maternal breast?

2. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?

3. Whom did the Popular Front join with?

4. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?

5. What did Hegel claim about nature?

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