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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 Hegel claim about nature?
(a) That it contained the world-spirit.
(b) That it was the human soul externalized.
(c) That it was motivated by the Oversoul.
(d) That it was unreasonable.

2. What results from acting in specialized areas, in Bataille's opinion in "The Labyrinth"?
(a) Man is impoverished.
(b) Man conquers the universe in its details.
(c) Man loses his innocence.
(d) Man becomes a specialist.

3. Under whom does fascism unite society, in Bataille's account?
(a) A leader who identifies with the state.
(b) A leader who represents the lower common denominator of society.
(c) A leader who represents the aristocratic self.
(d) A leader who identifies with the individual everyman.

4. What does the other self-mutilator (besides Van Gogh) do in "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh"?
(a) Put out his eye.
(b) Bite off his finger.
(c) Cut off his hand.
(d) Drink his own blood.

5. What tone did Andre Masson establish in his drawings?
(a) Biological-cosmological.
(b) Cosmological-orgiastic.
(c) Ashen-biological.
(d) Orgastic-ashen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bataille say the eye causes?

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

3. What does Bataille say surrealism is, in "The 'Old Mole' and the Prefix Sur in the Words Surhomme [Superman] and Surrealist"?

4. What does standing upright do for man in "The Big Toe"?

5. What are the two forms of heterogeneity Bataille introduces in "Psychological Structure of Fascism"?

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