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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. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?
(a) A priest cuts a victim's throat on an altar.
(b) A priest spatters a bull's blood on worshipers underneath.
(c) A priest stares into the sun to have a vision.
(d) A worshiper puts out a priest's eye.

2. What does Bataille define as a way to humiliate, defy, or obligate a poorer person as a show of destruction of wealth?
(a) Potlatch.
(b) Government subsidies.
(c) Welfare.
(d) Public Assistance.

3. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?
(a) Catastrophic.
(b) Unimportant.
(c) Terrible and magnificent.
(d) Humiliating and painful.

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

5. Who developed the theory of conspicuous consumption?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) John Dewey.
(c) Thorstein Veblen.
(d) Max Weber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bataille intend to define "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

2. When did Bataille deny his faith?

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

4. What did professor Hartmann dispute about the treatment of the Marx/Hegel dialectic?

5. How does surrealism rebel at first, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

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