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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section III (1936-1939).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Bataille write while he was working?
(a) Art criticism.
(b) Articles on philosophy.
(c) Book reviews.
(d) A medieval romance.

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

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

4. What two stances did Bataille combine?
(a) Merging and independence of men and women.
(b) Elevation and desecration of man.
(c) Fulfillment and hollowing of man.
(d) Sacrilege and holiness of religion.

5. What does Bataille say Nietzsche questions?
(a) How a people's spirit can be expressed.
(b) How an ideal can be discovered in the past.
(c) How a people's technology can be fulfilled.
(d) How an ideology can be invented.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Bataille go to school?

2. What does Bataille say coitus is associated with, in "The Solar Anus"?

3. What do flowers witness, in "The Language of Flowers"?

4. What do volcanoes serve as, in "The Solar Anus"?

5. What effect do flowers have on love, in "The Language of Flowers"?

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