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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 was Bataille afraid of as a child?
(a) The Rain.
(b) Spiders.
(c) Rats.
(d) Snakes.

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

3. How did Andre Masson establish the tone of his book of drawings?
(a) With a drawing of a prostitute.
(b) With a drawing of a syphilis cell.
(c) With a drawing of God parting the clouds in judgment.
(d) With a drawing of an acephalic man.

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

5. What feeling does Bataille say grows in response to revolutionaries?
(a) Messianism.
(b) Faith.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Disillusionment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say the world offers modern man to love?

2. What happens when political action leads to nothing, in "The Sacred Conspiracy"?

3. What did Bataille intend to define "The Critique of the Foundations of the Hegelian Dialectic"?

4. What does Bataille say was the driving force beneath his heterodox theory?

5. How does bourgeois society enslave and degrade poor men, in Bataille's opinion?

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