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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 his father?
(a) Financially secure.
(b) Depressed and alcoholic.
(c) Blind, paralytic and syphilitic.
(d) Frequently ill and mentally unstable.

2. What does Bataille say about monsters in "The Deviations of Nature"?
(a) That they are the best place to gain insight into people's feelings about themselves.
(b) That they are projections out of the ugliest part of humanity.
(c) That they are necessary to keep people in line.
(d) That they represent the opposite of geometric regularity of form.

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

4. What did "Acephale" primarily consist of?
(a) Anarchistic literature.
(b) Bataille's writing.
(c) Fascist rants.
(d) Surrealist writing.

5. Why is classical utility theory inadequate, in Bataille's opinion?
(a) Utility theory is not compatible with the Marxist imperative of class revolution.
(b) Utility theory disregards values like honor and virtue.
(c) Utility theory mystifies economics with talk of revolution.
(d) Utility theory relies on principles like honor and duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

2. What claim does Bataille discuss in "The Deviations of Nature"?

3. How does Bataille describe his memory of his father pulling down his pants in "[Dream]"?

4. What does Bataille's 'me in the void' realize in "Sacrifices"?

5. How did Engels and Hartmann differ on the tenets of Hegel's "Philosophy of Nature"?

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