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

2. What are flowers not matched by, in "The Language of Flowers"?
(a) The work of bees.
(b) The purity of the sunshine.
(c) A show of human love.
(d) The corrupt hands that pick them.

3. Why was it a mistake for Bataille to use his intellectual violence on Breton?
(a) Breton might have promoted it.
(b) Breton's friends excommunicated Bataille from the surrealist circles.
(c) Bataille lost friends over the gratuitous attack.
(d) Breton ruined Bataille in revenge.

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

5. What was Bataille being punished for in "[Dream]"?
(a) Seeing his parents naked.
(b) Playing with a hoop.
(c) Staying up too late.
(d) Wetting himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two stances did Bataille combine?

2. How should materialism be disclaimed, in "Materialism"?

3. How does Bataille describe the Mithraic cult ritual of the sun in "Rotten Sun"?

4. When is the 'me' free to accept individuality and transcendence, in Bataille's opinion in "Sacrifices"?

5. Where does Bataille recall riding his bicycle in Reims, in "[Dream]"?

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