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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section II (1932-1935).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What value does money articulate for workers?
(a) The value of what they produce.
(b) The value of their status.
(c) The value of their personal worth.
(d) The value of their ideas.

2. What did Hegel claim about nature?
(a) That it was the human soul externalized.
(b) That it contained the world-spirit.
(c) That it was unreasonable.
(d) That it was motivated by the Oversoul.

3. What does Bataille describe in "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) How Marx's dialectic method was critiqued.
(b) How Hegel's dialectic method inspired revolutions.
(c) How Marx's dialectic method was misinterpreted.
(d) How Marx's dialectic method was developed.

4. What two stances did Bataille combine?
(a) Merging and independence of men and women.
(b) Elevation and desecration of man.
(c) Fulfillment and hollowing of man.
(d) Sacrilege and holiness of religion.

5. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?
(a) For failing to embrace the decomposition of culture.
(b) For going insane.
(c) For admiring Emerson.
(d) For megalomania and failure of ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the rats doing in "[Dream]"?

2. What does Bataille say dominates history in "Popular Front in the Street"?

3. Under whom does fascism unite society, in Bataille's account?

4. What relationship between events and things is Bataille describing in "The Solar Anus"?

5. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?

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