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

2. Which of the following does Bataille NOT use as an example of unproductive expenditure without value beyond itself?
(a) War.
(b) Luxuries.
(c) Art.
(d) Public gardens.

3. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?
(a) Penises.
(b) Mother earth's breasts.
(c) The earth's anus.
(d) God's mouths.

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

5. What kinds of expenditure does artistic production require?
(a) Patron or market expenditure.
(b) Religious or secular expenditure.
(c) Real or symbolic expenditure.
(d) Public or patron expenditure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?

2. How did Bataille relate to Andre Masson's drawings?

3. How does Bataille describe his thinking in "Popular Front in the Street"?

4. What does Bataille use as evidence of his position on dialectics?

5. What does Bataille say the eye causes?

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