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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 did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Anarchistic literature.
(b) Bataille's writing.
(c) Fascist rants.
(d) Surrealist writing.

2. What was Bataille summing up in his "Propositions"?
(a) His thoughts on sex and perversity in modern life.
(b) His thoughts on Nietzschean metaphysics.
(c) His thoughts on the death of God.
(d) His thoughts on modern culture.

3. What does Bataille say would result from a difference of events in his experience?
(a) He would be an other.
(b) He would have to confront his true self.
(c) He would reveal his alter-ego.
(d) He would be at war with himself.

4. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?
(a) They were logical extensions.
(b) They were unprecedented.
(c) They were implicit in them.
(d) They were unrelated.

5. What was Breton's response to Bataille?
(a) He lamented the absence of any real philosophy at the core of Bataille's writing.
(b) He praised the shocking images that would disturb the bourgeoisie.
(c) He refuted Bataille's arguments.
(d) He condemned his pathological reasoning to the unreasonable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What approaches to Hegel's philosophy did Nicolai Hartmann compare?

2. Where did "[Dream]" originate?

3. For what field did Bataille go to school?

4. Why did Bataille leave his job in 1942?

5. How does Bataille describe his work?

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