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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 does Bataille say the world offers modern man to love?
(a) Nothing beyond self-interest.
(b) A society to be assumed.
(c) The progress of capitalism to communism.
(d) God and religion.

2. How did Bataille rebel against his father?
(a) By taking lovers.
(b) By running away from home.
(c) By quitting school.
(d) By becoming a Protestant.

3. Who arranged Bataille's psychoanalytic cure?
(a) Dr. Rank.
(b) Dr. Dausse.
(c) Dr. Jung.
(d) Dr. Adler.

4. What aspect of the Marx/Hegel dialectic did professor Hartmann test?
(a) Descriptive accuracy.
(b) Aesthetics.
(c) Diagnostic accuracy.
(d) Reasoning.

5. Where did "[Dream]" originate?
(a) In Bataille's psychoanalysis.
(b) In Bataille's imagination.
(c) In Bataille's marriage.
(d) In Bataille's childhood obsession with eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bataille attack Nietzsche?

2. Whom does Bataille say can never touch the reality of earth?

3. What relationship do the writings in Section II have to the writings in Section I?

4. In "Sacrificial Mutilation and the Severed Ear of Vincent Van Gogh", how long does Bataille say it took Van Gogh to paint suns after his self-mutilation?

5. What was the essay "Sacrifices" used as?

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