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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 is classical utility theory inadequate to define, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) The value of tranquility.
(b) The value of religious belief.
(c) What is aesthetically valuable.
(d) What is useful to man.

2. Who contributed to "Documents"?
(a) Rebel surrealists.
(b) Biologists.
(c) Librarians.
(d) Literary critics.

3. When did Bataille publish his first pamphlet?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1921.

4. What paradoxical action does Bataille describe in "Materialism"?
(a) The desire to stop using language for natural functions.
(b) The attempt to translate sex into language.
(c) The attempt to rid one's thoughts of spiritualism.
(d) The attempt to free the eye from aesthetics.

5. Whom did the Popular Front join with?
(a) Communists and Socialists.
(b) Fascists and totalitarians.
(c) Bureaucrats and Communists.
(d) Democrats and Socialist Democrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does fascism originate?

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

3. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?

4. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?

5. What does the homogeneous part of society purchase?

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