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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 principles does Bataille say men associate with the feet in "The Big Toe"?
(a) Subversion and power.
(b) Labor and evil.
(c) Powerlessness and subservience.
(d) Evil and dark.

2. What did Breton call Bataille?
(a) An excremental philosopher.
(b) A dubious genius.
(c) A prophet.
(d) A incremental writing whore.

3. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Diagnostic accuracy.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Descriptive accuracy.
(d) Reasoning.

4. What critique does Bataille make in "The Critique of the Foundations of Hegelian Dialectic"?
(a) He frees dialectical negation from Engels' mechanical abstraction.
(b) He mocks Marx and Engels for their idealism.
(c) He criticizes the Oversoul as a childish fantasy.
(d) He demonstrated why dialectical materialism is inevitable.

5. What does Bataille say scientists said about the dialectic?
(a) It was a matter of faith.
(b) It was incompatible with science.
(c) It was demonstrated in evolution.
(d) It was the one true science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bataille say about his book "W.C."?

2. What does Bataille claim the world is in "The Solar Anus"?

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

4. How is the question of 'what exists compared to what appears' resolved, in "Sacrifices"?

5. For what field did Bataille go to school?

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